Labour's plan for better buses:

1.💰Empower local transport authorities and reform funding
2.🎮Allow every community to take back control of their buses
3.⏲Accelerate the bus franchising process
4.⛔Step in to safeguard local bus networks
5.🚍Reverse the ban on public ownership

Great to meet up with Jonathan Reynolds and the Labour team today in Stalybridge as they prepare for the Stalybridge Street Fest tomorrow.
And a new Bee Network bus came by too!

Legal fees double the cost to taxpayers of Michelle Donelan’s libellous attack on British scientists.

It’s a slap in the face to hard working families that Tory ministers think this is good use of public money.

It’s time for an election and fresh start

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Labour's National Wealth Fund will bring 27,000 good jobs to the North East.

Great to see some of that already happening at Merit today with Kim McGuinness.

These are my dogs Wilson and Castle. Wilson seems unphased since Patrick Maguire’s revelations

Andy Burnham gets things done and stands up for the North. He also understands devolution is essential to a stronger national economy.

No question he deserves re-election as GM Mayor. A pleasure to have him in Stalybridge today

#VoteLabour

Good jobs are being put at risk because of Conservative chaos and their lack of strategy.

Hitachi is a massive asset to the North East economy. The government must recognise that and act now.
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Britain's bus services are in crisis.

Labour has a plan to Take Back Control 👇

Tomorrow’s The Northern Echo front page as Gavin Engelbrecht speaks exclusively to Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves during a visit to Hitachi as she vows to do all she can to stop the factory from ‘becoming a government wreckage’ #TomorrowsPapersToday #backontrack

Excellent focus for The Labour Party addressing the decline of our high streets. Local businesses and communities need support to tackle the years of decline and the archaic business rates system. #GeneralElection2024 #HighStreet

Today, I'm setting out Labour's plan for better buses.

Labour's plan will give every community a say over their buses.

Our plan means vital routes created and saved across the country, and better bus services wherever you live 🚍🌹

The skills and pride of workers at Hitachi Rail (ENG) should be celebrated and yet the Tories just won’t act to secure their future.

It makes you wonder if the Tories have given up on the North?

Great to welcome Rachel Reeves and Jonathan Reynolds to meet this incredible workforce.

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…

26 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed - one of Labour's proudest achievements.

Courageous leadership like Mo Mowlam's brought peace and power-sharing to Northern Ireland.

Today, we celebrate the progress made since then and must never take it for granted.

Mossley's very own A Team is celebrating a year of helping the neurodiverse community find its voice.

The team of volunteers at the organisation has just racked up a year of progress for its members

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

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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

“Hospitality helps create places where people want to live, work and invest... we're pleased to see this focus on high streets and fixing the broken business rates system' says Allen Simpson.

Read our full response to Labour's plan for high streets 👇ukhospitality.org.uk/labours-plan-f…

Labour’s plan for our high streets will breathe new life into your area:

✅13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs
✅Guaranteed face-to-face banking in every community
✅Replace business rates
✅Stamp out late payments
✅Revamp empty shops, pubs, and community spaces

As the holy month of Ramadan ends and Muslims look forward to Eid al-Fitr, I want to take the opportunity to say Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating.

I hope this day is a chance to gather together, spend time with family and honour the end of a blessed month.

#EidMubarak