Residents often raise issues of antisocial behaviour with me. That’s why I organised ‘Meet your MP’ advice surgery along with the local police at New Parks Community Centre. The number of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) across the East Midlands has collapsed by 40% since 2010. At the same time, […]
In a major speech, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has spelt out how Labour’s growth mission will improve the lives of families across the country. It comes as analysis reveals that, on current trajectories, the UK will be poorer per person than Poland by 2030, and by both Hungary and […]
A year on from Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine, I joined residents outside the Town Hall in Leicester to remember the unimaginable hardship faced by the Ukrainian people, including by all those families who have fled here to our community in Leicester. We continue to welcome you with open arms. […]
“Smart Governments always nick the best ideas of their opponents!” That’s what the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said about Labour’s plan for our NHS! So what is he waiting for? The truth is that Labour is proposing the solutions to the problems that the country faces because the Conservatives […]
Feeding Leicester is the programme to end hunger in the city and I have chaired this work for the last four and a half years. At our last meeting we heard from local hospitals who are having to provide free and low-cost food to patients, visitors and staff, and from […]
After 13 years, the Conservative legacy is criminals being let off while victims are let down. Everyone has a right to feel safe and secure in their homes and in their community. But the Conservatives are soft on crime, with millions of victims paying the price. Communities feel under threat, […]
For twelve years the Tories have been letting down young people like those at Leicester College with a decade of decline in opportunities. I was delighted to visit the college to mark National Apprenticeships Week by meeting a brilliant group of talented engineering apprentices, ambitious for their futures. The young […]
Here is my joint statement with Jonathan Ashworth MP following the resignation of Mike Veale as interim Chief Executive at the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Whilst we welcome Mr Veale’s resignation, serious questions remain as to why he was ever appointed in […]
The Guardian reported this week the shocking account of a dementia home care agency spending as little as three and a half minutes on care visits and filing records claiming far more care was given. The appalling care received by Susan yet again highlights the scale of problems facing social […]
On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, the millions more persecuted by the Nazis and in more recent genocides. This week in Parliament I signed the Book of Commitment alongside MPs and Peers of all political parties. We learn from the past to […]
The cost of living is soaring with energy bills rocketing. The Tories point to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine to explain the cost-of-living crisis. But we are forecast to have the lowest growth of the 38 countries in the OECD over the next two years, behind even Italy […]
At its best, social care is about ensuring that every older and disabled person can live the life they choose, in the place they call home, with the people they love, doing the things that matter to them most. This week a much needed report was published by the […]
