Positive response in Old Moat this evening with the Old Moat Labour 🌹 team with lots of support from our local residents for Garry Bridges-Traynor ahead of the election on May 4th.

Today I have written to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on behalf of Manchester City Council demanding Local Housing Allowance rates be increased at tomorrow’s #Budget2023 in line with rising private rents and the cost of living to protect our most vulnerable residents from homelessness

In Wednesbury South today campaigning for our excellent Sandwell Labour candidate Kulwant Uppal🌹

Lots of great conversations and support for The Labour Party - Kulwant will make an excellent councillor.

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We don’t want the cost-of-living crisis to hold you back!

Great welcome Garry Bridges-Traynor #YBA23

.Garry Bridges-Traynor welcomes everyone to the 2023 Youth Buzz Awards #YBA23 - ‘Our children and young people are passionate, proud and outspoken’. He thanks all the young people for all they do Manchester City Council

Betty Boothroyd was a dedicated and devoted public servant who will be dearly missed by all who knew her.

My thoughts - and the thoughts of the Labour Party - are with her friends and family.

Lovely line from The Guardian's obituary of another great Labour woman Barbara Castle, on Boothroyd, saying the moral of the latter's career was: 'You never know what people are capable of until you give them the opportunity to show it.” theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

The only ever Madam Speaker.

50 years of service in UK House of Commons & House of Lords. Yorkshire born, Midlands adoptee, political grandee, part-time paraglider. Humour & warmth were her weapons of choice.

Thank you, sister for your huge contribution to British political life.

I’m delighted Luciana has accepted my invitation to rejoin Labour.

My test for change was whether those who were rightly appalled by how far we had fallen believe this is their party again.

I know we’ve more to do but we’re unrecognisable from the party that forced her out.

I’m launching the five missions that will drive my Labour government and restore pride and purpose in our country.
 
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Here’s a thread on what we’ve been up to this half-term⬇️✨

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Passenger transport, part of the ambulance service that members are telling us is the forgotten service.
Strength of feeling on the picket line is growing, the members are angry that the Government won't talk pay!
#ambulancestrike

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Labour will always be committed to our steel industry and we'd expect that same commitment from any party governing our country

That's why I have written to the Business Secretary today asking her to clarify her flippant remarks and back Labour's long term plan for green steel

This week is #HeartUnions week 🧡

We'll be celebrating GMB wins all week, showing that when working people come together we make work better 💪

Happy #HeartUnionsWeek ! 🧡

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Whatever your role, your party, whether you’re in Westminster or the Western Isles, we’re fighting for you. 🤝🍊

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13th-19th February is TUC North West #heartunion week let’s get involved and celebrate the great work @gmbnwi branches are doing ! Paul McCarthy GMB . The Branch - GMB Trade Union Bolton 23 GMB Branch 84 (J05/J06) GMB Trafford Branch GMBX39Branch GMB@OPS1

Failure by OFGEM and the Government to defend low-income families against the fitting of expensive prepayment energy meters (sometimes as a result of debt agencies breaking into homes) is propelling many families further into debt and the hands of loan sharks.

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Great to hear from the pupils. Lots of interesting questions. Clearly well informed and interested. A well run event as ever! The Politics Project