Great to join so many good colleagues from Birmingham & West Mids on Friday (my birthday!) for a lovely evening. Big elections across the region in May. Members there want a strong voice, working full-time for them. I gave them my commitment.

Very informative discussion with @GordonBrown and the leading child poverty charities yesterday about the urgent need to lift the 2-child benefit cap. Doing so would lift half a million children out of poverty.

I won’t waste a day as Deputy Leader getting to work on the elections next year. I won’t write off any councillors or Councils and will support Scotland and Wales. Our communities deserve it. https://t.co/nzAEqiZQc8

Great to have @MetroMayorSteve's support at my Lucy Listen’s event in Liverpool today. Members want us to do better and they want the Deputy to be their voice, all the time, and to help us turn things around. That’s what I’ll do.

A noisy minority is holding Scotland back. After years of SNP failure, it’s time for a government that delivers. Scottish Labour will provide the new direction Scotland needs.

Why would the political editor for @SkyNews, @BethRigby be pushing Reform, instead of asking about their current links to Russian Money? Why are journalists promoting a far-right party, instead of investigating the huge unfolding corruption scandal?

Not suspicious at all @Nigel_Farage

Great to be out over the weekend with my good friend @jessphillips campaigning in the Moseley by-election for @StephenPihlaja. Friends in politics are very important. Jess is loyal, feisty, kind, and you know exactly what she’s about. Politics needs more like Jess.

A 19-year-old footballer waiting 5 hours for an ambulance. A grandfather with stage 4 cancer waiting 15 hours in A&E. A grandmother paying £10,000 for private care. That’s the human cost of SNP incompetence. https://t.co/h2IR5qT6qz

The Co-operative Party is pleased to support Labour and Co-operative MP Lucy Powell (@LucyMPowell) for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

We are the land owners. Gaza.

Really delighted to have the support of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East @LFPME

Return is a right 🇵🇸

I got a text! See why more and more members are supporting me as a strong voice for our movement.

The SNP has fully delivered just 35 of 100 pledges in 2021 Holyrood manifesto, Times analysis reveals. Free bikes and iPads for poor children, state childcare for one and two-year-olds and scrapping NHS dental charges among litany of broken promises. https://t.co/J03OKrm6b7

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus https://t.co/HwIzALM1f4

Really enjoyed @LGA_Labour hustings last night & delighted to have picked up so much support afterwards. From Brighton to Bury, Labour must reconnect with its base. Thanks to @BellaSankey & @Eamonn_OB for setting out why they're voting for me. https://t.co/KgyCTso1Zg

This is a disappointing line. Lucy has been careful not to throw rocks or act in a divisive manner. It may be my perception, but I think I’ve seen more divisive comments from the other side. Let’s work together get our deputy chosen and focusing on governing.

“I’m not in the business of spreading Project Fear.” @LucyMPowell hits back at rival Bridget Phillipson’s “ludicrous” claim her appointment as Deputy Leader would “energise their opponents.” @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

Vote cast for @LucyMPowell 🗳️ She'll be a full time, campaigning deputy leader - supporting and promoting the work of our Labour government across the country, and providing a strong independent voice for change within our Party.