Since taking office, this Labour Government has begun the serious work of national renewal after more than a decade of austerity and decline. By cutting NHS waiting times, bringing railways back into public ownership, boosting defence manufacturing, and investing in clean energy,
Labour MP Emily Thornberry warns lack of Western condemnation of US action in Venezuela could weaken international law and embolden China and Russia.
In addition to being the date on which the Veterinary Medicines Irish Sea Border comes into effect for the first time, New Years Day will also witness the arrival of the new EU customs procedures on the Irish Sea Border called Import
In April last year, my constituent Jason Knight was cleaning the final window on the home of a regular customer in Westbury when he was electrocuted by 33,000 volts. He was blown seven feet across the garden, waking up on a patch
End of term – and on the second last day I note a tractor pulling a vast trailer-load of very ripe manure through Parliament Square. Methinks the farmers (deeply unhappy about the proposed inheritance tax on their farms) were on their way
My hometown of Blackpool is often talked about as a place in decline rather than a place of possibility. It’s seen as a symbol of what has gone wrong, rather than understood as a community living with the sharpest edge of national
The UK Government’s proposed asylum reforms, outlined in the “Restoring Order and Control” policy statement, threaten to dismantle the UK’s ability to provide support to those who need it most. Beneath the rhetoric of removing the ‘pull factors’ lies a system poised
As Parliament marks what would have been Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, it is worth pausing to reflect not only on her literary genius, but on what her work continues to tell us about Britain today. Austen is often treated as a national
I was proud to lead a Westminster Hall debate on an issue of local, national and international significance: the urgent need to ban small-scale fracking operations. This was a timely moment for a debate. In my constituency of Scarborough and Whitby, Europa
Sewell Setzer was fourteen years old. For ten months, he’d been talking to a chatbot on Character.AI, a virtual companion modelled on a Game of Thrones character. When he told it he wanted to die, it asked if he “had a plan.”
