What I'm doing here: meeting children and staff at the Brighton Montessori School.

As an MP I spend time in Brighton meeting and helping constituents as well as voting and representing the people of Brighton in Westminster.

An example of the Brighton-side of work is my visit to the Brighton Montessori School, the other day.

The school is independently funded but parents and the school governors are campaigning for state funding from the local education authority.

They asked me to visit to hear about their campaign.

As the local MP I'm really passionate about the need for all pupils to access good, well funded local schools and will be working hard to make sure that government legislation makes this possible.

Thanks for the iced green cup cake, baked by the children, by the way. Delicious!