I’m really pleased to be joining the board of trustees for Feeding Britain, a national charity working to alleviate and eliminate hunger across the country. Hunger has no place in 21st Century Britain and we need to make sure it becomes a thing of the past. As chair of […]
Last week, I signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment in Parliament. Signing the book marks a commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as paying tribute to the extraordinary Holocaust survivors who work tirelessly to educate young […]
I was recently a guest on the BBC’s Politics Live programme. We discussed the Labour leadership election, and what Labour needs to do to win back public trust, immigration policy and how to tax big tech companies. You can watch the full episode here.
Under the Tories, £2.5 million will be cut in real terms from primary schools in Leicester West next year. Five schools will lose more than £250k, with cuts between £400 to £600 per-pupil. My mum was a primary school teacher and she taught me that getting a good education is […]
There are 31,000 unpaid family carers in Leicester. They are the unsung heroes and heroines of our community yet too many face a desperate daily struggle to look after their elderly or disabled loved ones. Carers tell me how hard it is to get all the different services working together […]
It is appalling that there are now 43,000 nursing vacancies in England. In Leicester, the nurse vacancy rate has increased from 10.8% in July 2017 to 13.6% in July 2019, which is higher than the national average. The Royal College of Nursing says applications for nursing courses have plummeted by […]
So grateful to the amazing volunteers who have been helping me write to Labour supporters to encourage them to sign up for a postal vote. You can sign up for a postal vote here: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-09/Postal-vote-application-form.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0bcIsAv2jE50P296-UpOQPHVAd7Qk6tTd-MWrgHuzM_MHEIol66h1Havk
It is a total disgrace that in the 21st century, in one of the richest countries in the world, 40,000 children in our city are now growing up in poverty and 1 in 5 children say they worry about having enough to eat. Growing up poor makes it harder for you […]
Yesterday I joined Emma Saunders, the East Midlands representative of the Labour Campaign for Council Housing, and a local Labour Party member, in Parliament. The Labour Campaign for Council Housing are calling for Labour’s next manifesto to include 155,000 social rented homes a year, with at least 100,000 of these […]
Johnson’s deal won’t sort Brexit and neither will an election. The only way to do that is to be honest about the real choices we face and give the public the final say. Watch a clip from my interview on Sky News where I talk about this above.
Yesterday I spoke in the debate on the EU Withdrawal Bill. I set out why Boris Johnson’s deal won’t sort out or end Brexit, or deliver on the promises made during the referendum. I voted against the Bill at second reading and against the timetable the Government had set to […]
I recently met with the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) to talk about the impact Brexit could have on the 12,000 people employed across 200 food and drink companies in Leicester and Leicestershire. The FDF have warned that leaving the EU without a deal would risk severe delays at ports […]