Liam Byrne MP
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🌹 MP, Hodge Hill | Chair, @CommonsBTC & Global Parliamentary Network for the World Bank & IMF | New book! The Inequality of Wealth
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Ten years ago, Thomas Piketty’s Capital In the 21st Century transformed the debate about the inequality of wealth
A decade on, are we closer to ideas to fix it that people will actually vote for?
I think we are. Here’s how:
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As we wrap up our
@CommonsBTC
week in DC,
#Philadelphia
&
#NewYork
a huge thanks to
@NYSERDA
@CommerceGov
@NYSE
& above all
@HannahyoungNYC
, John Thompson & the
@UKinNewYork
team for an excellent couple of days on UK/US trade - & what we can learn from
#Bidenomics
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📈 Today, the
@TheTimes
Rich List reveals the wealth of Britain’s top 10 billionaires has RISEN by £63 billion
😡 Yet,
@TrussellTrust
just revealed they’ve doubled the issue of food parcels in just 5 years
❗ We can’t go on like this. We’ve got to fix the
#InequalityOfWealth
.
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📈 Today, the
@TheTimes
Rich List reveals the wealth of Britain’s top 10 billionaires has RISEN by £63 billion
😡 Yet,
@TrussellTrust
just revealed they’ve doubled the issue of food parcels in just 5 years
❗ We can’t go on like this. We’ve got to fix the
#InequalityOfWealth
.
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💷 The
@thetimes
#RichList
just revealed Britain’s top 10 billionaires grew their wealth by £63 BILLION in just 1 yr
Yet
@TrussellTrust
are issuing RECORD numbers of food parcels
We have GOT to fix the
#inequalityofwealth
that now so deeply scars our country
New vlog👇Trussell Trust foodbanks provided 3.1 million emergency food parcels last year. This can't continue. Every political leader should set out how they will create a country where everyone can afford the essentials we all need to survive. Read more:
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Big thanks to our Congressional colleagues on House
#Ways
&Means Committee for swapping thoughts on US~UK trade deals with
@CommonsBTC
here in
#WashingtonDC
Clear shared ambition for closer ties in a more uncertain world 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Today we launched our first steps for change🌹
Learn more at
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But: that requires us thinking NOW about:
- Our strategy for UK growth / growth targets
- The contribution to growth we seek to secure from trade
- What we hope trade with Europe would contribute to this number
- the cooperation with Europe we need in order to deliver this
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So. Rethinking the strategic relationship with Europe is now vital for a post election summit with I hope, Keir Starmer and the new EU President. And our talks in Brussels show there’s a huge trade diplomacy agenda to go for. 5/.
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Much of the free trade argument was predicated on a deal with the US - which is simply not going to happen anytime soon - and a ‘tilt’ to the Indo-Pacific. Yet while
#CPTPP
IS important, lots of the exciting numbers for growth in Indo-Pacific include China, from where derisking
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And if we’re honest the whole signing free trade agreements thing - that some promised would be so easy - has proved rather harder than some thought
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I know there’s differences of opinion on this, but it’s very hard to conclude that Brexit hasn’t hurt our goods exports
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Crystal clear from our time in
#WashingtonDC
that US trade agenda is getting harder not easier
We’re going to have to get more creative. And think harder about a new agenda for trade with Europe
Here’s five ways forward for the next Labour Govt:
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Visited a local resident to talk about the terrible flytipping on their street.
If you have an issue in your community, drop me an email on Liam.byrne.mp
@parliament
.uk
#AlwaysHereToHelp
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