Labour is lifting 100,000 children out of poverty by expanding access to free school meals. Child poverty is a scar on our society – the Tories let numbers grow by 900,000 in government. It’s the moral mission of this Labour government to drive those numbers down, that’s why we set […]
On Friday, Liz’s MP representative, Sarah Russell and the constituency team visited Inglehurst Junior School who have been focused on letter writing. A Year 6 pupil wrote to Liz to express their concerns about issues that meant a lot to them, including local wildlife, litter and economic growth. Liz’s team […]
Last week I visited Barley Croft Primary School, in Beaumont Leys, where they held their Christmas Assembly. Pupils and staff at the school also said goodbye to their headteacher, Kevin Lacey, after 14 years at the school. During his time as Head, Kevin has led the school to great success […]
As the Christmas holidays approach, I am very concerned that the Government have failed to learn lessons from the previous years about coronavirus in schools. I spoke on Politics Live yesterday about what needs to be done. Right now, only 44% of 12-15 year-olds have received a first dose of […]
Choosing the winner of my annual Christmas Card competition is one of the highlights of my year and last week I announced this year’s winner is Danny Casey, aged 4, from Braunstone Frith Primary School. Hundreds of school children from across Leicester West competed to design my Christmas card […]
Yesterday I made a speech in Parliament on Space Park Leicester and the wider space sector. This is a subject close to my heart as there is huge potential for space science and technology to create high skilled jobs of the future, grow our economy, tackle climate change and […]
Last week I had one of my favourite ever visits, to Space Park Leicester where I met with Professor Suzie Imber who ran a workshop teaching pupils from Queensmead Academy in Braunstone about physics with rocket experiments. The space sector has huge potential to create high skill, high quality jobs […]
Last week I met with pupils at Braunstone Frith Primary School who’ve been gathering evidence to support their campaign to tackle traffic problems on Tatlow Road. We also met with the local Councillors, and an officer from Leicester City Council to explore what options are available, and what would work. […]
Last week I visited Sunflowers Neighbourhood Nursery in Braunstone to celebrate Children in Need day with them! The work they do to give children the best start in life, whether they are seedlings (0 – 2 year olds), sprouts (2 – 3 years) or flowers (3 – 5 years) is […]
Last week, at the end of UK Parliament week, I was honoured to present a bust of Leicester suffragette, Alice Hawkins, to students at New College Leicester after they won an essay writing competition. I did this alongside Alice’s great grandson, Peter Barratt, and you can read coverage of the […]
On Friday I had a brilliant morning at Queensmead Primary Academy where I met students, was shown their amazing Edible Playground & answered questions from school council. I especially loved helping to plant some new honeysuckle, which is one of my mum’s favorites, as part of a new sensory garden.
Last week I really enjoyed the opportunity to get a tour of Castle Mead Academy‘s new building, and to talk to the Principal, Tom Hague, about the challenges of building a new school and its city wide catchment area.
