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North Dorset MP calls out US President Donald Trump
Simon Hoare MP called Trump “a crook and deeply dangerous” in the latest episode of Your Voice | Dorset Podcast.
The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Dorset since 2015 has been very outspoken about the current American president for some time.
Speaking on the latest episode of Your Voice | Dorset Podcast, Simon Hoare laid into Donald Trump once again.
“I don’t think I’m on Donald’s Christmas card list,” he joked.
“I think he’s absolutely the worst excesses of populist politics. The divide and rule, the abuse of power and position, how he demeans journalists. I think he’s a crook and deeply dangerous.”
Born in Cardiff in 1969, Hoare first became interested in politics after meeting his local MP. Hoare had a career in public relations during the 1990s, as well as being a councillor at the district, county and parish level. He’s held several other roles, including serving as the current chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee. Given this wide range of experiences, he has strong views on the role of politics in everyday life.
“I think [being an MP] is a vocation. It’s not a job. It’s a calling,” he said. “There’s 650 of us in the House of Commons, all from different backgrounds and different outlooks, all trying to do our best in our own way to make our little patch of the United Kingdom a better place.”
Regarding the challenges facing his constituency of North Dorset, which covers Verwood, Blandford, Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton, Hoare talked about the tricky balancing act of housing and that, while 88 per cent of the region is not developed and that is special, development is needed.
“Our villages need to grow sustainably in order to maintain the village school, the village shop, the post office, the pub, otherwise we will see these things dwindle as populations shrink,” he said.
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