End of another busy week knocking on doors across our area.

“Why can’t we have a General Election now?” came up time and time again.

After 14 years of the Tories, residents are restless for a fresh start.

The biggest casualty of these fourteen years has been hope.

It’s time to put children and families back at the heart of government.

It’s time for Labour.

Labour wants every child to achieve and thrive.

That’s why we’ll invest in the success of our children — including mental health support in every school, paid for by ending tax breaks for private schools.

🚨Our rail manufacturing sector is in crisis.

Jobs are already being lost due to months of inaction from Conservative Ministers, with thousands more at risk.

Britain created the railways, but that legacy is being trashed by a Government content to oversee their managed decline.

Great to be out supporting Labour’s fantastic candidates for the elections on 2 May 🗳️

Lots of support for Durham Police & Crime Commissioner PCC Joy Allen and Labour’s North East Mayor candidate Kim McGuinness

Thanks to North Durham MP Kevan Jones for joining us.

Really important to have Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the The Northern Echo fighting for Hitachi Rail in Newton Aycliffe 👇🏻

As North East Mayor I’ll bring buses under public control so they go where we need them, not just where profit takes them.

With Louise Haigh as transport secretary a The Labour Party govt we’ll do this quicker.

This is just the start. As mayor I’ll fix our broken public transport

The Government's negligence and ideological resistance to industrial strategy has created an existential crisis in our rail manufacturing sector.

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While the Tories have left Hitachi Rail in the lurch, I’m fighting every day to secure the 700 fantastic engineering jobs.

Today me and Labour North East Mayor candidate Kim McGuinness were joined at the plant by Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP and Shadow Buisness

Britain has had 14 years of chaos under the Tories.

Watch Tony Robinson in our latest party election broadcast on Labour’s plan for Britain’s future.

It’s no surprise people in County Durham feel the Tories broke their promise to ‘level up’. It’s nothing more than empty slogans and comparative cash for stuff, it was never about improving people’s lives.

We need a The Labour Party North East Mayor working with a Labour Govt so we

Ferryhill School students taught in portacabins deserve special dispensation in their exams.

But the Tory government is still refusing to to do the right thing.

With exams round the corner, this is the government’s last chance.

Watch my latest video 👇🏻

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter!

The Transport Secretary has had months, if not years, to find a solution to prevent these job losses.

He has failed to treat this situation with the urgency or priority it deserves.

It is a national scandal that he has put at risk our strategic manufacturing assets.

The Tory rail manufacturing crisis which threatens Hitachi in Aycliffe has just sunk Alstom in Derby 👇🏻

Dreadful news, which Alstom pins firmly on the Tory Transport Secretary

With 750 jobs at stake at Hitachi in Newton Aycliffe, the government is missing in action.

On my latest visit to the North East, I’ve underlined Keir Starmer and Alan Strickland for Newton Aycliffe & Spennymoor’s support for The Northern Echo’s campaign to keep Hitachi on track.

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Proud that Labour’s Leader Keir Starmer has come out fighting for Hitachi in Aycliffe.

700 jobs are at risk because the Tories refuse to extend a key contract.

Keir is standing up for our community, while Rishi Sunak is nowhere to be seen.

It was fascinating to visit Magnitude Biosciences at NETPark in Sedgefield.

Dr Fozia Saleem and her team are leading cutting edge research right on our doorstep.

Great to see scientific innovation and commercial acumen combined to support new treatments and healthy ageing.