Theresa May became Prime Minister under difficult circumstances and they will undoubtedly be as challenging for her successor, particularly as the Parliamentary arithmetic will remain unchanged.

As a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, I am required to be impartial during the election process, although I will still able to vote without publicly endorsing a specific candidate.

At this time I have not decided who to back, and I will be engaging with both the candidates and my constituents throughout the process and am already receiving many comments from constituents.

I shall be carefully considering what each candidate has to say about not only Brexit but also the post-Brexit domestic agenda.

In Parliament I have been participating in debates and questioning Ministers on a range of non-Brexit issues that are of great concern to my constituents, particularly about education and the NHS.

At Prime Minister’s Questions I asked Theresa May about enabling social mobility and for assurances that education and skills funding will receive priority attention in the upcoming Spending Review, which sets budgets for Government departments for the years ahead.

I also joined other Worcestershire MPs in a debate led by Rachel Maclean (the MP for Redditch) on Worcestershire hospitals, where I called for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust to get its fair share of additional funding as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.

I have also spent a lot of time with schoolchildren recently, with many schools visiting Parliament as well as me visiting them.

I answered questions on a range of issues – from the environment and climate change to Palestine – by pupils from schools in Flyford Flavell, Droitwich, Hartlebury, Evesham, and Badsey.

It has also been a busy month for local festivals and events right across the constituency.

I was pleased to attend the Canal Festival in Droitwich, the Horse Trials in Broadway and the 5k asparagus fun-run among others.