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Sir Roger Gale
Member of Parliament for Herne Bay and Sandwich (including West Thanet)
2026
 15th February 2026The Ice Man did it! Another amazing run for Matt Weston paired with Tabitha Stoecker to take gold medals in the first mixed team skeleton event of its kind at the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy. Congratulations also to our snowboard team, Charlotte Banks and Huw Nightingale, who took the UK’s first ever gold medals on snow in the mixed team cross event. Doubles all round! |  15th February 2026The Ice Man did it! Another amazing run for Matt Weston paired with Tabitha Stoecker to take gold medals in the first mixed team skeleton event of its kind at the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy. Congratulations also to our snowboard team, Charlotte Banks and Huw Nightingale, who took the UK’s first ever gold medals on snow in the mixed team cross event. Doubles all round! |  14th February 2026At the end of National Apprenticeship Week with store Manager Michael Dudley and Danielle who is participating in a Retail Leadership and Management (Level 3) course at the Discovery Park Asda Express, Sandwich. More proof, if it was needed, that you can earn and learn at the same time. |
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 14th February 2026Happy Valentine’s Day 🌹 |  13th February 2026Sliding down the ice on little more than a tin tray at over eighty miles an hour may not be everyone’s idea of fun but huge congratulations to Matt Weston on ending the UK medals drought at the Winter Olympics. What a courageous and stunning performance - and on Friday the thirteenth - what a nice guy. |  12th February 2026Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week in the House at the Hospitality Apprenticeship Showcase with my constituent Claire Illman who is currently completing her Managerial Apprenticeship with East Kent brewers Shepherd Neame. It is no secret the hospitality industries are have a hard time at present so thanks to Shep’s for sticking by their apprentices and a privilege to be invited to present Claire with her Certificate of Recognition from the company. |
 11th February 2026The RSPCA launched their ‘Animal Futures’ report in the House of Commons this week in tandem with their response to the Government’s ‘Animal Welfare Strategy’. The RSPCA broadly supports the strategy - but as is so often the case everything depends upon delivery and enforcement. That is particularly relevant in respect of import restrictions and mandatory labelling. |  9th February 2026The latest addition to the Gale family is a nine year old Norfolk terrier (pictured with Suzy) Coco, who is about the size of our Newfie head, is being tolerated by Rocco and by Gracie, Suzy’s black cat, but has already made herself very much at home! |  8th February 2026With Sheila and Martin Porter and Trevor Bartlett at the excellent WI gathering in Ash Village Hall on Saturday to promote the Riding Lights Theatre Company’s pre-Easter performance of Night Falls. Ash Village Hall for one night only on 21st March. Tickets (heavily subsidised) £5 only from Boots, Welcome or Poparound. Capacity limited. Book now to avoid disappointment! |
 8th February 2026Yesterday it was good to support East Kent Scout Jonathan Bowe fundraising for his jamboree visit to Poland. Good luck to all of those young people participating in this enterprise. It’s hard work but with determination you can all do it - and the jamboree will be a very rewarding experience. |  7th February 2026A wonderful morning yesterday with The staff and pupils at Herne Church of England Junior School where the young students have spent the week studying climate change. And thanks to Amalise Humphries for curating an excellent exhibition of collages made from recycled waste. It was hard to judge the best entry because in their own way all of them were winners but in the end the turtle (pictured) took the number one spot on the podium. |  5th February 2026Good to attend the Commons launch of PETA’s Research Modernisation Deal. This Strategy for replacing the use of animals in experiments with advanced humane methods using human stem cells, genomics, imaging, computer modelling and other scientifically acceptable and validated alternatives is what some of us have been campaigning for for many years. These proposals could and should put the UK at the forefront of global research science.Time to move forward. |
 4th February 2026The Walk the Walk breast cancer charity has raised, through its flagship overnight Moon Walk and other fundraising events, more than £146 million to help fund prevention and research over the years since it was founded. Those many families - including my own- that have been touched by breast cancer owe them our support. |  27th January 2026Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, when we remember all those murdered during the Holocaust, Nazi persecution of other groups, and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. |  26th January 2026Congratulations to Director General Paul Whitfield and Team Wildwood for securing well-earned recognition of their conservation work in winning the Great British Wildlife Restoration award for the reintroduction into the wild of one of Britain’s smallest but best-loved mammals – the Water Vole. The Wildwood Trust received the award in the Speaker’s House in Parliament and is for one of many wildlife reintroduction programmes for which the Herne Common Wildlife Park is establishing a reputation. |
 24th January 2026I am sharing this letter that I have written in relation to stroke services in East Kent. In this letter, I explain why I do not support proposals to transfer stroke services from the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. |  24th January 2026I am sharing this letter that I have written in relation to stroke services in East Kent. In this letter, I explain why I do not support proposals to transfer stroke services from the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. |  23rd January 2026With Paul James for 107.8 Academy FM Thanet to cover a wide range of issues that included National Grid’s ongoing threat to desecrate the Minster Marshes (‘Sealink’) the welcome return of Search and Rescue helicopters to Manston Airport, the threat to our High Streets and hospitality businesses and the regurgitated proposal, which I have already opposed formally in writing, to transfer the excellent stroke services at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital to the periphery of the district in Ashford. |
 19th January 2026 |  15th January 2025A privilege to be on the ground with RiverOak and the Save Manston Group to welcome the Search and Rescue helicopter and its crew back to Manston today and to see for myself the state-of-the-art aircraft and lifesaving equipment that Bristow’s are now operating. Manston is the Short Straits SAR’s natural home. Good to have you with us again guys and girls. |  15th January 2025A privilege to be on the ground with RiverOak and the Save Manston Group to welcome the Search and Rescue helicopter and its crew back to Manston today and to see for myself the state-of-the-art aircraft and lifesaving equipment that Bristow’s are now operating. Manston is the Short Straits SAR’s natural home. Good to have you with us again guys and girls. |
 15th January 2025A privilege to be on the ground with RiverOak and the Save Manston Group to welcome the Search and Rescue helicopter and its crew back to Manston today and to see for myself the state-of-the-art aircraft and lifesaving equipment that Bristow’s are now operating. Manston is the Short Straits SAR’s natural home. Good to have you with us again guys and girls. |  4th January 2026A great sadness to be prevented, by the need to remain in quarantine for shingles, from attending the Blessing of the Seas that I have attended with my Cypriot friends on virtually every year since I first came to represent what was then North Thanet. I am grateful to those who helped to deliver the following message for me: |  4th January 2026A great sadness to be prevented, by the need to remain in quarantine for shingles, from attending the Blessing of the Seas that I have attended with my Cypriot friends on virtually every year since I first came to represent what was then North Thanet. I am grateful to those who helped to deliver the following message for me: |
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