West Country Politics

Former Army officer Johnny Mercer, who was first elected in 2015, said Brexit was exposing the party to ‘ridicule’ under Theresa May’s leade

Up for debate this week The Prime Minister claims austerity is over and is a clean air tax the answer to our pollution problems?

MP Johnny Mercer, who was only elected in 2015, said he would not have run in Plymouth Moor View "if the situation was like it is now".

Eight new warships are to be based at Devonport, the Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced.

Sarah Wollaston, the Tory MP for Totnes, is battling a campaign to deselect her for her views on Brexit.

Theresa May blames local government cuts on the "mess of the public finances left by the last Labour government".

A Plymouth chef who faced deportation from the UK despite having lived here for more than 40 years has finally been told he can stay.

A mum from Cornwall has parked her car across the entrance to a housing development which she says puts her blind daughter at risk.

Matt Hancock was cornered by an NHS staff worker who wanted to know when the government was "going to start funding the NHS properly."

ITV News West Country's Political Correspondent David Wood presents this month's West Country Debate.