Brilliant to be out w Angela Rayner 🌹 & Rachel Reeves in Yarm today to launch The Labour Party plan for high streets
✅ more community police
✅ scrap & replace business rates
✅ banking hubs

Showing what a Labour Govt can do working together, instead of Tory chaos letting country down

A lovely afternoon talking to local people (and a few posties out doing their rounds!) in Horfield with Tom Renhard and Deborah and the team.

🚯 We're increasing fly-tipping fines to the legal maximum.

🫧 As well as acting as a deterrent, the fines will be directly reinvested into cleaning Bristol's streets.

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I will take on tax dodgers to fund our NHS and schools.

I promised I would honour my commitment to find new funding - and I've stuck to my word.
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Popped up to #Bristol to help Bristol Labour Group in their local election campaign today.

Good canvass session in Henbury this evening despite the rain and it is genuinely lovely being on the same canvass team as Darren Jones MP again! Good luck to local candidates Wendy and Peter here

🌹 'With an experienced Labour council here in Bristol, working in partnership with what we hope will be a Labour Government nationally, we can really start to turn the page on 14 years of failure of the Conservatives.' - Darren Jones MP

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Don't have photo ID to show at a polling station on Thursday 2 May 2024? Apply for a free voter ID by 5pm on Wednesday 24 April.

Apply at orlo.uk/otwgv

Great to be with Will Stone in Swindon yesterday.

In the middle of Rishi’s recession, with a double tax whammy on working people, it’s a hard time to run a small business.

A Labour government will reform business rates, support small business and revive our high streets.

Giving with one hand and taking with another - that's Rishi Sunak's tax plan.

Families know they are worse off under the Tories. It's time for an election. It's time for change.

It took years for Rishi Sunak to U-turn and drop his opposition to abolishing the non-dom status.

But buried in the small print of his plan is a £400 million-a-year loophole that will benefit some of the wealthiest people in Britain.

Read more 👇

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Isreal must answer questions about the killing of aid workers in Gaza.

British arms cannot be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law.

If those conditions have been breached, then it’s time to suspend the sale of those arms to Isreal.

The next Labour government will work with Sadiq Khan to boost economic growth, create jobs, and unlock even more of London's potential.

Inspiring to see some of that happening already The Crick today.

Great to join Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹 and Sureena Brackenridge in Wolverhampton.

With a Labour Mayor in the West Midlands and a Labour government in Westminster, we’ll turn the page on 14 years of the failure from the Tories and start a decade of national renewal.

40,000 small businesses have been hammered by Rishi’s recession in the past year.

High streets have suffered with so many independent shops closing their doors.

Labour will get the economy back on track, reform business rates and open banking hubs, to revive our high streets.

Covid stopped me asking Paula Vennells in person about what she knew.

In a written response she said:

“I raised this question repeatedly…and was given the same answer: it was not possible”

We now know she knew.

It’s the darkest misleading of Parliament I’ve ever seen.

The Tories’ failure to deliver banking hubs has left Britain’s high streets in decline.

Labour’s plan to roll-out at least 350 banking hubs will bring banks back to communities, so that local people and small businesses can access the services they need.

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Our brilliant team of Bristol Labour Group council candidates are working hard talking to local people in every ward across the city.

🔎 Find your local Labour candidate

📋 Sign up to help the campaign

🌹 Vote Labour on May 2nd!

👉 labourbristol.co.uk

Reader, this is not an April Fools.

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Happy Easter!

Lovely sunny morning talking to people in Bradley Stoke with Claire Hazelgrove this morning.

And great to see Labour South West parliamentary candidates Daniel Aldridge and Hal Hooberman helping out too.