🦷❌Plymouth NHS dentistry update:
Hundreds of Plymothians have filled in my survey on NHS dentistry.
75% have waited more than a year for an appointment.
I have handed in the findings to Health Ministers, with a stark warning that Plymouth's dental services are in crisis.
First we had Thèrése Coffey not knowing that Kigali is the capital of Rwanda, and now we have Chris Philp not knowing that Congo is a different country to Rwanda…
They're sending £576m to a country they can’t even pick out on a map… 😳
Thank you to
@PlymouthCollege
for inviting me to see their 1st XI take on Marylebone Cricket Club this afternoon. Enjoyable hour between meetings today.
#plymouth
#lukeMP
The South-West desperately needs better public transport.
@LouHaigh
couldn’t be clearer about Labour’s direction of travel: it’s time to nationalise train operators and drive up standards through Great British Railways.
🚨JUST ANNOUNCED: Labour will create Great British Railways.
Under Labour our railways will be:
✅Publicly owned
✅Passenger focused
✅Fit for the future
Only Labour has a plan to get our trains back on track:
Britain’s railways are broken.
Cancellations have soared to record levels, fares have risen almost twice as fast as wages, and taxpayers are paying through the teeth to prop up a failing system.
Labour will deliver a publicly owned railway that puts the passenger first.
Britain’s railways are broken.
Cancellations have soared to record levels, fares have risen almost twice as fast as wages, and taxpayers are paying through the teeth to prop up a failing system.
Labour will deliver a publicly owned railway that puts the passenger first.
Today I met young people and Plymouth’s Members of the UK Youth Parliament to discuss the collapse of the British Youth Council.
They gave me a letter that I will be sending to Ministers.
Young people are 25% of our population but 100% of our future.
As Keir Starmer recently set out, Labour wants to see a fully funded plan to reach 2.5 per cent, but the Tories have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted on defence and we will examine the detail of their announcement closely. (1/4)
After 14 years of Tory hollowing out of our Armed Forces, Labour will defend Britain better. We will:
✅Reinforce homeland protections
✅Fulfill NATO obligations in full
✅Make allies our strategic strength
✅Direct British defence investment first to British jobs and business
📣 TODAY is the deadline to apply for Voter ID and a proxy vote for the local election and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall election.
⏰ You have until 5pm.
👉 to find out more.
#VoterReady
#vote2024
#PlymElections
This morning Parliament’s own spending watchdog, the
@NAOorguk
, publishes a damning indictment of the government’s botched and flawed chidcare rollout.
As Labour has said all along, this was a pledge without a plan.
A thread: 🧵
I'm honoured to champion the military veterans at Stoll. If you choose me as the next MP for Chelsea and Fulham, I promise that - unlike the present incumbent - I'll be there for every constituent who asks for my support.
This was the first video I had done since my cancer operation on my face a year ago. I was worried how I'd look but the support was incredible and it has healed so well since.
So, get lumps and bumps checked out asap.
And use your postal vote for Labour🌹
Enjoyable canvass this afternoon in Central Ward in
#Bristol
supporting Sarah and
@MattRedmore
in the local elections on 2 May.
Lots of people telling us they want to see
@ThangamMP
re-elected at the General Election too. They’re right: she is brilliant🌹
The Colonna Report makes clear that donors should have confidence in UNRWA.
Ministers must now come forward and explain how they intend to respond to the report and if they will restore future funding for UNRWA.
It is an essential lifeline in Gaza.
On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish everyone a happy St George’s Day.
Let us be proud of our national identity, confident on the world stage, and sure of our country’s future.
Happy St George's Day, Plymouth.
I’m proud to be English as well as a Janner. For me, St George’s Day represents modern England: diverse, proud of our equality and accomplishments, forward looking and optimistic about the future.