Meeting secured with the Home Secretary on knife crime
Today, the Prime Minister called for more action on tackling knife crime after nine years…
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Venezuelan refugees in Colombia
In Venezuela, the corrupt, authoritarian regime of Maduro has forced millions of people to flee as…
ESA backpayments Urgent Question
A Minister told me in the Commons that Department for Work Pensions (DWP) ‘Presenting Officers’…
Antisocial behaviour
I have been dealing with some horrific antisocial behaviour across Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Walworth. It…
Unequal pay for women
Almost 50 years ago a Labour Government introduced the Equal Pay Act, but it has…
PrEP
The NHS is piloting a drug called PrEP which has been proven to prevent the…
Challenging the Govt on the Hostile Environment
Since 2010 the Government have cut councils’ budgets by 49% but passed extra costs onto local…
Changing the law on terror insurance
After the terror attack in June 2017 at London Bridge and Borough Market I campaigned…
Reopening Albion Primary School!
Southwark parents, governors, teachers and families all fought together to try and prevent Government cuts…
Rough sleeping continues to rise in London
Today the Government published its figures for rough sleeper numbers in England and Wales in…
Letter to MHCLG on No Recourse to Public Funds
On Monday I asked about the Government’s hostile environment which now means London councils paying…
No Recourse to Public Funds funding
Today in the Commons I asked the Government why Southwark council was forced to spend £6.5…
My letter to the DWP on Universal Credit
Despite inaccurate claims to the opposite, the Government will force 1.6 million people onto its…
Letter to the Equalities Minister on PrEP availability
Southwark has a higher prevalence of HIV than the national average for a mixture of…
I will be voting to dump the downgrade this evening
Today Parliament is voting on May’s plans – which are a massive downgrade for the UK, for…
Homelessness: a national shame
Since 2010, the number of people sleeping rough has more than doubled sadly, a crisis…
Foodbank event Saturday 12.01.19
Come along this Saturday, 1-3pm to hear from the Southwark foodbank & learn how you…
The colossal failure of Universal Credit
5 years after Universal Credit was first imposed in Southwark and Ministers are now testing…
Groundhog May
Yesterday, the Prime Minister came to the House of Commons and said the same things…
North Walworth canvassing session 15/12/18
Join local Labour members knocking on doors in the North Walworth ward to spread the…
Dump the downgrade!
For more than two years Theresa May has deluded herself that she can deliver the…
Great to see Elizabeth in Southwark News after our campaign to get her Blue Badge back!
JustGiving owes £500,000 and a huge apology
JustGiving have now acknowledged the unjustifiable nature of profiteering from terror attacks and disasters. They…
Election as Co-Chair of APPG on Ending Homelessness
Very pleased to be re-elected co chair of the parliamentary group on ending homelessness. Homelessness…
Universal Credit is not going well
The Government tried to claim that Universal Credit is going well. This is not the…