Oh no Walthamstow - the local park run has run out of volunteers so had to be cancelled! If you can help them and get E17 moving again please get in touch! 🏃🏃‍♀️

Beyond thankful to live in a community where immigrants share their culture and traditions to help me learn how good a mountain of butter and sugar added to sweet potatoes can taste. How did I only just discover the joys of this American staple?!

A pleasure to join @CrestCharity at the Snug today at 4 Greenleaf Road for their open day. It’s a peer support group for those with mental health challenges that provides a vital non judgement and nurturing space to so many in our community. Whether art, music or someone to talk

SAFE European Defence fund talks collapsing concerning- it’s a brutal reminder of counterproductive barriers Brexit imposed between us and our closest allies at a time when cooperation key to our mutual safety and security. Both sides need this to work so vital isn’t end of

Abolishing the Tory two child benefit cap will make a life changing difference to many families in Walthamstow for whom work is not enough to cover their outgoings. This budget has much to commend and much to work on - this decision in particular cannot come a moment too soon for

Good to hear the Chancellor identify the legacy of Brexit as one of the reasons our economy needs investment - the damage it has done is stark. To offer any chance of salvaging British businesses and jobs affected, this budget shows we need to go further in the EU reset.

The UK is a powerful voice for action on climate change and played a crucial role at the recent COP summit - today I urged the Secretary of State to reject the new Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields to be able to continue to lead in this way.

I'm sorry, what? Green Peers voting with Tories and Lib Dems to undermine the Employment Rights Bill in the House of Lords.... 👀🟩

With negotiations on the future of Ukraine, the Prime Minister came to Parliament to update MPs - I urged him to progress our talks with Europe on joining the Security Action For Europe scheme not as an alternative to NATO but as part of strengthening our ability to withstand the

Walthamstow our local @WalthamstowSA has a hill to climb on their Christmas fundraising appeal to be able to give Christmas presents to local children who otherwise wouldn’t get one - if you can chip in please use this link and spread the word:

You have until 5pm on this Thursday 27th November to get your entries in for my annual Christmas greeting card competition which goes to over 3,500 people - anyone under 12 living in Walthamstow can enter and you win tea with me and your family in Westminster. Entries should be

A pleasure to join @LewesLabour on Saturday to take their questions about the Labour movement - here’s my response on how we can reform our asylum system to gain more control at the border and treat refugees with compassion.

During his Government’s watch child poverty rose not fell, and 3,000 women had to admit to the DWP they were raped to be excluded from the two child benefit cap. Some individual responsibility from those responsible for these back of a fag packet policies for their consequences

The Daily Telegraph is being bought by the Daily Mail. With columnists who write this kind of incel style bilge about someone they disagree with on immigration think it’s unnecessary tbh …

Walthamstow asking for your help to gather evidence of your experiences on three different issues- please help me gather information on shared care, touring and ILR by sharing this video in your local groups. Anyone with a relevant case study please email office

For parliaments international men’s day debate I asked chat GPT to tell me about men… 🤨😂 If we want men and boys to thrive we need to spend less time online and more time seeing it’s not a battle of the sexes but a bafflement we need to overcome …

The fact that Ian Wright felt he had to do this shames us all. Jude Bellingham wears our shirt. He deserves our respect.

The Leader of the Greens is trying to tell you I support the proposals on asylum. I imagine thats news to the Home Secretary... Hope isn't lying about your political opponents. If he cared for refugee kids he wouldn't weaponise them, he'd work with those of us fighting for them.

If this is true it means the culmination of this process is now a proposal to reinforce gender stereotypes, with those who don't fit them having to justify themselves regardless of their biological sex. Thus, the EHRC itself now seeking to legitimise stereotypes rather than