Liz Kendall
@leicesterliz
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Labour MP for Leicester West. If you’re a resident and need my help please ring 0116 204 4980 or email liz.kendall.mp @parliament .uk
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Our offer to young people
✅ The chance to get new skills
✅ Specialist employment support
✅ New careers advisors & work experience
✅ Proper mental health support early on
✅ Real opportunities for young disabled people
This is
@UKLabour
’s positive vision for the future
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Hello Henry! We are bursting with love and happiness ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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30k excess deaths in care homes, at least 20k due to Covid. 25k elderly people discharged from hospitals to care homes without tests & staff left without PPE. All this after a decade of cuts to social care. And Johnson blames care homes. Really, a new low.
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I tell you what erodes trust in politics. Telling people you are pro immigration when you’re mayor of London then lying to people during EU Ref that Turkey is going to join EU not bcos you believe any of it but because you think it will help you become PM. Pathetic.
Extending Article 50 now would do nothing but erode trust in politics. We must leave as promised on March 29th. The Government should go back to Brussels, ditch the backstop and aim for a
#BetterDeal
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Has anyone asked about care home deaths in press conference? These need to be reported alongside hospital deaths so we know the true scale of the problem, and can take action to protect over 400,000 elderly people living in residential care
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A PM no one voted for, who wants a No Deal Brexit that’s never been on any ballot paper, blocking the very parliamentary sovereignty that Brexit was supposed to be about. Will of the people? Do me a favour.
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Today, I wrote to
@MattHancock
urging him to publish daily figures of deaths outside hospitals, incl in care homes. This is essential to understanding the true scale of problem and ensuring all care workers get the PPE & tests we need to save lives
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Some happy news!
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One of the country’s leading respiratory doctors and consultant at Glenfield Hospital, in my constituency, confirms what
@Keir_Starmer
has just said - the true numbers & demographic data were NOT shared with Leicester
#PMQS
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There’s 4.3m women aged 50-64 in workplace but a quarter are considering quitting or reducing their hours because they’re struggling with the menopause. Women shouldn’t have to suffer in silence. Proud to support
@carolynharris24
brilliant campaign for a
#MenopauseRevolution
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On
@BBCr4today
when
@RishiSunak
was asked why there was nothing in
#Budget2021
on social care he said its because Govt is attempting to build a cross party consensus.
FYI: this has not been discussed or even raised with me by any minister. Despite my regularly asking.
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A wasted summer. Instead of preparing for winter, we’ve seen u-turn after u-turn with the Govt failing to get a grip and instead blaming everybody else.
@Keir_Starmer
superb today at
#PMQs
.
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Rees-Mogg visibly enraging Tory MPs who I would have thought he should be trying to persuade to back the government. Never seen such cold hard anger.
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In today’s emergency debate on extending A50 I warned PM about her attacks on MPs. It is our job to scrutinise & question, to exercise our judgement, & stand up for what we believe in. Suggesting otherwise is dangerous for our parliamentary democracy.
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.
@IanAustinMP
has fought his whole life for
@UKLabour
and you don’t even bother to reflect for a second about why he has left or what this means for our party?
My response to Ian Austin joining the Independent Group today.
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“We can chant all day or we can change peoples lives.”
@Keir_Starmer
knows where he stands and we stand absolutely with him. 👏 👏 👏
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It is shameful. It is corrupt. I am utterly disgusted.
BREAKING: MPs back plans to tear up Commons disciplinary system - blocking suspension of Tory former minister Owen Paterson - by 250 votes to 232, majority 18.
Furious Labour MPs shout: "Shameful. Totally corrupt! What have you done to this place?"
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Seeing some of responses to Jess pulling out of leadership contest shows how much we need to change. We will never convince people who voted for other parties to support us next time when we are so vile to people within our own party who have the temerity to hold different views
It would’ve been easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle. Piss off Jess Philips you absolute gobshite.
Jess Phillips quits Labour leadership race
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“The Labour Party is under new management....under my leadership national security will always be the top priority.” Brilliant last
#PMQs
before summer from
@Keir_Starmer
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This is not what people were promised, it’s a worse deal than we have now...and the uncertainty will go on for years to come. My
@BBCNews
interview on why I’ll be voting against May’s Agreement.
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Background to story on
@BBCr4today
- the data Leicester did not receive and why Ministers did not publish it. This really matters because what’s happening Leicester could be happening elsewhere.
Pillar 1 is tests in hospitals. This is published. Pillar 2 is tests from drive through centres and home testing kits done by commercial labs. This is not made public. Leicester was only given this data very late in the day. 2/3
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When you’ve won 3 general elections, introduced minimum wage, sure start, paternity leave, increased NHS spending to EU average, ended waiting times for operations (I could carry on) come back to me x
@JohnEdwards33
@mikecoulson48
@leicesterliz
We've moved on..and they should do the same...time to accept what kind of Labour Party the public want and it's not blairite neoliberalism..only a true socialist party can be a credible opposition..and a real change in No 10 that's what we all voted for in the GE and will again
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Boris Johnson promised no one would have to sell their home to pay for their care. Now we know if you’re rich, you won’t see your life savings wiped out but if you’ve got low or modest savings, you will. It’s unfair and it’s wrong.Britain deserves better.
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Owen is right to speak out about the threat Brexit poses to the peace process in Northern Ireland and to the U.K. economy. Well done for sticking to your principles & putting the national interest first.
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Deaths in care homes should be reported alongside those in hospitals. The government needs to act fast to ensure all care staff get the protective equipment and testing they need to save lives
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Once again Johnson gets it wrong. UK doesnot do more Covid tests than anywhere else in Europe. Denmark does almost twice as many per 1000 people. Plus UK figs include antibody tests, which other cos don’t, & based on when tests sent out, not results
#PMQS
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As I said earlier...trying to pit parliament against the people is dangerous. That May sought to do so again this evening is deeply irresponsible and more in keeping with authoritarianism than a Parliamentary democracy
In today’s emergency debate on extending A50 I warned PM about her attacks on MPs. It is our job to scrutinise & question, to exercise our judgement, & stand up for what we believe in. Suggesting otherwise is dangerous for our parliamentary democracy.
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Overwhelmed by all the messages today. I’m sorry I can’t reply to everyone but this has been a properly lovely day and I’ll remember it for a very long time. Thank you x
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Whatever happens tonight, surely we need to extend or revoke A50 to give us time to sort out this chaos. Parliament cannot allow civil war in Tory party to push Britain headlong into no deal simply because the clock has run out.
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Boris Johnson’s tax hike on working people won’t “fix the crisis in social care” or stop elderly people with low or modest savings from having to sell their homes to pay for care. But it will protect the homes of the wealthiest. My piece for
@DailyMirror
'Britain's elderly deserve so much more than Boris Johnson's broken promises', says Labour's Liz Kendall
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Thank you to all 6 branches in Leicester West CLP for re-selecting me. I am beyond grateful to all the amazing members who put their trust in me to stand up for our principles and values x
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I did. It, er, didn't go so well...
@leicesterliz
@Coyotes_Bar
so why didn't you stand for leadership to argue your principles? It's what JC did last year when had `no chance'
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Brilliant speech by Ken Clarke on
#EUWithdrawalBill
- applause and shouts of “more!” Privilege to hear it
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Social care is our generation’s great challenge. Must be far bigger priority during coronavirus & beyond.
@UKLabour
’s mission is to transform care for older & disabled people & make Britain best place in the world to grow old. Thanku
@Keir_Starmer
for giving me this opportunity
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Very sad to see
@tom_watson
stepping down as an MP and
@UKLabour
Deputy Leader. I will continue to fight for our progressive, social-democratic, pro-European Labour values and know that many other MPs and members will do the same.
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Yet another betrayal of older and disabled people, which Labour warned about weeks ago, after 13 years of broken promises and failure on social care reform.
Social care reform funding halved for England, government confirms
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Govt should publish daily figures of deaths outside hospital, incl in care homes. We need the full facts in order to fully deal with
#coronavirus
. Too many residential care & home care workers still aren’t getting PPE they need, despite PM’s promise they would by end of March.
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Tortuous
#Marr
interview with Raab shows claim that Tories will sort Brexit is total rubbish. We haven’t even begun negotiations about our future relationship & Tories are still pretending we can have everything we want with no consequences. This will go on, and on, and on.
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@carolecadwalla
Carole. I’ve said before Parliament shouldn’t have gone into Easter recess, we should have continued to sit to question and scrutinise Govt. I’ve continued to ask Hancock questions as best I can in the meanwhile (see my timeline). So I’m trying to do my job. Thanks.
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Interesting: Trump wins amongst white college grad men & those earning over $50k a year. Not just "poor, uneducated" as some believe...
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Honoured to have been asked by
@Keir_Starmer
to take on this important role. Looking forward to working with our great
@UKLabour
team to deliver the change our country desperately needs.
Liz Kendall MP
@LeicesterLiz
has been appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
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@margarethodge
fought off BNP in Barking, she’s fought tax dodgers, and she’s fought for women’s rights and equality... only “action” should be public praise
I’m told the media were briefed that “action will be taken” against Margaret Hodge before Margaret Hodge was told
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Astonishing admission from Sunak on
@bbclaurak
: over last decade benefit system “hasn’t been reformed at all” & no. of people out of work due to long term sickness has soared
On THEIR watch
Labour’s plan will drive down NHS waits, overhaul JobCentres & get Britain working again
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When I think of the transformation in NHS & early years services, and how much has been reversed under the Tories, I am beyond proud of what the last Labour Govt achieved. We championed social mobility AND social justice. And we always should.
Tony Blair: Jeremy Corbyn's comments that inequality & social mobility have been ignored for decades are the latest charge in what is now a mantra: that the Thatcher, Labour & current Govts are all the same.
This is bad politics & worse history. Time to set the record straight👇
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Vive la France 🇫🇷
1) Not one inch free in Paris’s Republique Square at tonight’s rally against antisemitism. People as far as the eye can see.
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Hancock repeatedly claimed he threw a “protective ring” around care homes during Covid but at the time I and many others argued nothing could have been further from the truth. Now we see he rejected the CMOs advice - how many lives could this have saved?
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I was on
@thismorning
today talking about urgent need for families to start visiting their loved ones in care homes again. The Govt must change course, treat families as ‘key workers’ & make them a priority for testing & PPE. Let’s help bring all families back together again.
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John Major's Brexit speech is thoughtful, measured & wise (unlike many responses I expect to get to this tweet!)
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The Tories want to end National Insurance Contributions.
Your NICs record helps determine your entitlement to the state pension.
So if NICs are scrapped, how will people know what pension they’ll get?
A simple question that deserves a straight answer.
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Achievements of the last Labour government get standing ovation in conference hall. At. Last. 👏 👏 👏
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A truly terrible day when
@BoardofDeputies
&
@JLC_uk
feel the need to write such a letter. No one in
@UKLabour
should try & minimise or downplay this. I will be showing my solidarity in Parliament Square tomorrow.
Very powerful letter by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council on Labour anti-Semitism row.
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Isn't truth you collapse at first sign of gun fire? Paxman nails it: May is weak, breaks promises, u-turns under pressure
#BattleForNumber10
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I have never known a nastier, more aggressive time politics. People have different views. Debate and argue with passion and respect, but do not bully or intimidate - and never bring children or families into it.
What a horrible, horrible thing to say to a child.
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Evidence from other countries suggests up to half of coronavirus deaths happen in care homes. UK Govt should be publishing this data daily. Social care needs a much higher priority & focus. “Whatever it takes” must apply to social care too.
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Extremely important work by
@jburnmurdoch
and others at
@FT
on Government’s failure to share crucial data on
#COVID19
testing with Leicester council and other key local players 1/3
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This small print, sneaked out today under a cloud of Tory sleaze, shows Johnson’s so-called cap on care costs is an even bigger con than we initially thought. THREAD.
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Pillar 1 is tests in hospitals. This is published. Pillar 2 is tests from drive through centres and home testing kits done by commercial labs. This is not made public. Leicester was only given this data very late in the day. 2/3
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A personal message… I’m having a routine hip replacement tomorrow and will be out of action for a few weeks.
Huge thanks to all the NHS staff who've helped me so far!
My constituency office will be open as usual and my team will continue to do everything they can to help.
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The future of our country should not be determined by the never ending internal Tory psycho drama and all those jockeying to succeed Theresa May.
BREAKING May has told the 22 that she would not remain for the next stage of the negotiations
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May I humbly request no "this is a huge wake-up call" comments. Some of us have been "awake" for a little while...
#EURefResults
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Seriously
@BBCNormanS
have u just talked about Theresa May's "sartorial style"?! When are we going to stop making women's clothes an issue?!
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Never understood why fares at peak times are most expensive when in fact should be cut price to compensate people for it being the most god awful miserable time to travel
#justsaying
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With almost 27,000 excess deaths in care homes since the start of the pandemic, at least 15,000 due to Covid-19,
& with rising infections in care, we urgently need a winter plan for social care. I’ve written to
@MattHancock
setting out 5 key areas for action 1/8
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You’re better off stacking shelves at Morrison’s than caring for older and disabled people, and that’s not good enough for our country.
#COVID19
has exposed the urgent need to reform staff pay, terms & conditions. My question in Parliament today....
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Absolutely right from care charities: “Older people’s lives are not worth less. Care home staff are not second-class carers. The government must step in and make it clear that no one will be abandoned to this virus simply because of their age, condition or where they live.”
Exclusive
Coronavirus causing ‘devastation’ in care homes & elderly being abandoned to ‘worst virus can do’
Letter from Alzheimer’s Society, Age UK, Marie Curie, Care England & Independent Age calls for more PPE, testing of staff and daily statistics
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At last. Someone asks the Conservatives where they would get the money from to fund their NHS workforce pledge. Zero answer from
@SteveBarclay
. Taxpayers deserve better.
'If Labour announced a policy of £2.4bn without saying where that money was coming from, you'd be after them like a rocket.'
@SophyRidgeSky
asks
@SteveBarclay
if an extra £2.4bn for the NHS workforce plan will come from borrowing.
#Ridge
📺 Sky 501
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Hats off to
@jessphillips
for making social care a top priority & for being honest in saying we will have to pay more if we want a decent system
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Devastating for the people of Leicester W & the country. Despite 9yrs of cuts & most R-wing nationalistic Tory party in my political lifetime. And if we delude ourselves into thinking this was about Brexit we’ll be in opposition for a decade or more.
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I’ve written to
@MattHancock
urging him to put in place a recovery plan for social care, which is integral to the overall recovery strategy for our country, alongside the longer term reforms social care desperately (THREAD) 1/6
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Social care is as much a part of our economic infrastructure as the roads and the railways. Labour is calling for a 10 year plan of investment and reform and for the Govt to bring forward it’s repeatedly delayed plans in next months Queens Speech. More in my
@1adass
speech later
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British steel in liquidation, yet another hospital found abusing people with learning disabilities, Arcadia set to close dozens of stores...and where is the Govt? In total meltdown with Tories set to launch latest leadership contest in in their never ending Brexit psychodrama
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Awful stories of families separated from loved ones in care homes on
@BBCr4today
. A single family member should be designated as a key worker & made a priority for testing so we can safely start visiting again. With so many local lockdowns & winter coming this is even more urgent
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I know families are desperate for children to be safely back home from university at Xmas and will welcome mass testing now underway. But what about the families who’ve been banned from seeing their loved ones in care homes for 8 months? Why aren’t they a priority for testing?
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I don't want a hard/no deal Brexit precisely bcos it will hit poorest hardest. And just FYI..my school wasn't grammar when I was there, my dad left school at 16, my mum was a primary school teacher, and I'm v proud I got to Cambridge.
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We do not need Dominic Cummings to tell us the Government’s rhetoric about putting a protective shield around care homes was “completely nonsense” - the evidence is there for all to see. My comments in today’s debate on dementia.
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So tonight it’s farewell to
@bbcthisweek
...thanks to an amazing team who always make me smile, and apologies in advance for my singing
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As everyone starts talking about easing the lockdown, we mustn’t forget that the lockdown in care homes isn’t ending any time soon. Residential and home care workers must be a priority for testing, not just once but on a regular basis. My interview for
@BBCBreakfast
this morning
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Following today’s terrible new figures on
#COVID19
care home deaths from
@ONS
and
@CQCpressoffice
I have written to
@MattHancock
outlining 6 areas where further practical steps are required to reduce the spread of the virus, protect care users & staff & bring death rates down
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Nope, Malbec & steak
Meanwhile, Liz Kendall's final campaign rally is a few friends round her place for prosecco and gnocchi.
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I remember Naomi Eisenstadt who ran Sure Start Unit for 7yrs once said “Politicians think delivering policy is issuing a press statement. Civil servants think it’s issuing a circular. Only people on the ground know long hard work of really making it happen.” Always stuck with me
The PM's "plans to transform the...skills system" is very welcome. But PMs have announced "radical reforms" to the skills system every other year for 3 decades. Success requires relentless focus on delivery. Does that play to this government's strengths?
#justasking
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Women in their 50s & 60s are in the prime of their lives but too many have to give up work because they can’t get the help they need to look after an older or disabled relative. Today I outlined
@UKLabour
’s plan to tackle the care crisis & help women balance work & family life.
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Fantastic news!!!
@NHSEngland
decides to keep children’s heart surgery at Glenfield. Huge thanks to all the staff, patients & families, campaigners & MPs who’ve supported our campaign. We couldn’t have done it without you!
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Just been on call with Minister about
#LeicesterLockdown
. The great news is our pubs, cafes, bars & restaurants can re-open and people can go on holiday with their own household. But leisure centres, gyms & pools still closed, and no meeting up with other households indoors. 1/2
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The Labour Party today is unrecognisable from 2019 and we are never going back. So very well said
@Keir_Starmer
: “Let’s keep changing Labour. Then let’s change the country.”
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Social care staff must be valued equally to those who work in the NHS. But this means getting them proper protective equipment,
#Covid_19
testing and a decent salary more than a brand or a badge.
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We don’t boo the English football team for taking the knee against racism, we get to our feet and cheer. Because we are patriots and we believe our diversity makes us strong.
#Lab21
@Keir_Starmer
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.
@nadhimzahawi
has just confirmed to me that the Government will not change or extend the support available to businesses or employees as a result of
#leicesterlockdown
. My constituents and people across Leicester deserve better. This is a warning for future local lockdowns too.
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I SWEAR I didn't do it, Seamus, you can check my handwriting and everything...
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My constituent Mr Espedy Alvester Thomas, who came here in 1950s as part of
#Windrush
generation, finally got his naturalisation certificate today! I raised his case with
@sajidjavid
& won’t stop until he finally gets passport & compensation he deserves
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