Proud to have introduced our Renters’ Rights Act to improve the lives of millions of renters across the country. 🌹

If he wins on Thurs, and becomes PM thereafter, he needs this scene translated & updated for the national context. This was the moment in which he spoke for Manchester: he articulated an us/them popular politics that elaborated the grievances/emotions of a whole city, a whole region. This was when he went from popular Labour mayor to Normie Populist Tribune/"King in the North". He needs an equivalent that allows him to SPEAK FOR BRITAIN. Carney's reaction to Trump's designs would be a model on the geopolitical stage. On the level of political economy, it would be a real/deft rhetorical confrontation with rampant rentierism, extractive/vulture capital, on behalf of the British people & the national interest (e.g. action against the despised private energy giants, the foreign hedge funds that own rip-off water companies & shoddy care homes, absentee commercial landlords driving high st decline etc.). There needs to be an instantly memorable & memetic signal of what the premiership is/sets out to be – who it is FOR and AGAINST.

that’s the question isn’t it. what WILL she do? there are no youth clubs for her to attend. food, cinema tickets, any sort of third space activity is all too expensive. their parents are underpaid, saturday jobs don’t exist any more, children have truly been abandoned by the govt

I had social media growing up so I deeply understand the concerns. But growing up I didn’t have access to tutors. My mum wasn’t around as she worked evenings. When I needed help revising for my GCSEs, I turned to educational content on YouTube. For kids from backgrounds like mine, it offers support they might not get elsewhere. That matters in this conversation.

Lee Rigby's family didn't want his death to be used to divide people Henry Nowak's family didn't want his death to be used to divide people Stephen Ogilvie's family doesn't want his attack to be used to divide people But the far-right 'patriots' always disrespect their wishes

Stop entertaining this stupid idea. My taxes should not go to compensation to people unwilling to check the news or their post.

Indefensible. Shame on any far-right mouthpiece who dismisses this as 'protest'. It is far-right hooligans who have no right to call themselves patriots using a horrific incident as an excuse to wreak havoc.

let’s be true to britain.

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. This motion is currently the only available mechanism through which Parliament can reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice; if it is debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the Code from being issued by the EHRC and coming into force. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.  The Code will exclude trans people from services and facilities that they have long used without issue, putting them at increased risk of harassment and violence, and effectively pushing them out of public life.  It ushers in an era of enforced segregation for trans people, the policing of which will be outsourced to service providers, including businesses, charities and public bodies.  In the statement to the House of Commons yesterday, the Minister even suggested that where members of the public are unsure of someone’s gender within a single-sex facility, “most people will have the common sense to step in where necessary or, if they are concerned, to alert a member of staff.” Meanwhile, this guidance does not give clarity and confidence to organisations that want to be trans-inclusive. Its impact also extends beyond the rights of trans people. The government’s own Equality Impact Assessment warns that “women who are considered masculine may face greater scrutiny” and that disabled people could face adverse impacts. The Code represents a profound rollback of rights, which will affect trans people directly and erode the principles of inclusion, dignity and equality upon which all our rights depend. This guidance must not become statutory; the government should withdraw it and instead legislate to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-…

NEXT WEEK: Student loan inquiry will kick off on Tuesday, hearing from Universities UK, IFS, Prospect Union, NUS campaigners 'Rethink Repayment' Comes after the Treasury Select Committee released some of the evidence it has received this week, with Chair @Meg_HillierMP describing it as an issue of 'intergenerational fairness', with 'misleading' advice given to prospective students about the loan scheme

🚨 NEW: The Government has announced 300,000 new training and work experience placements across construction, social care and hospitality to tackle youth unemployment

I'm not even 30 and I can tell this is a different climate, a different world, to the one of my childhood. there's no excuse for the boomers/Gen Xers to blithely dismiss the fact

4/ As we face the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade, we must learn the right lessons. The way to get bills down for good and avoid these price spikes is to go further and faster with our drive for clean homegrown power that we control.

I know it’s very British, but we can’t keep having moral panics about computers every time we don’t want to admit we’ve torn the social contract to shreds Why, we cry, are they at home! There are abundant Saturday jobs, graduate schemes, and home ownership is but a skip away!

Labour for Trans Rights can in no way support the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft Code of Practice. The text differs minimally from the draft version that was leaked last year. (1/3)

Kids will go free on buses across England this summer! Schemes like those run by @WestofEnglandCA & @KiMcGuinness have shown what can be done. Parents can plan days out, visit family and make the most of holidays without added financial pressure. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7p…

I’ve raised the crisis in job vacancies especially in former coalfield areas like mine multiple times in Parliament. In my constituency there are over 20 people seeking work for every vacancy. The govt needs to urgently act to create jobs not penalise people for being unemployed.

Politics isn’t working for places like ours. I will change that. #AndyBurnham #ForUs

The Andy Burnham Manifesto: - More council homes - Max devolution - Cost of living help on rents, bills and fares - More transport expansion of franchising - Re-industrialisation to bring modern manufacturing back - make technical education the equal of university routes - transfer of more civil servants north ON BREXIT - The last thing we should do is re-run those arguments - Time surely to bring people back together - Not proposing we rejoin the EU - Respect the decision to leave

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS