Weekly Round-Up
In my first update of 2023, I want to start by wishing everyone a very Happy New Year.
Despite all our hopes for change, we have a Government starting the new year as they finished the last.
Completely devoid of ideas, and totally incapable of delivering for the British people.
Rather than fix the crisis in our NHS, Ministers are demonizing staff and the PM flip-flopping on whether he uses private healthcare.
Rather than find a solution to the industrial dispute on our railways, the Government continues to play politics.
People have had enough.
If the PM wants to give the country a New Year's gift, it should be a General Election to give us the Labour government we so desperately need.
Right to Strike
This week, the Tories set about to curtail worker’s right to strike. The Tories are threatening nurses and public sector workers with the sack.
Whilst the Tories have gone from clapping these workers to sacking them, I vehemently opposed the Tory plans to restrict the right to strike, and voted against the Bill when it was put to the House of Commons this week.
Justice Questions
At Justice Questions, I pushed Ministers on their inaction in response to the workload crisis in probation services.
If we don’t tackle this underlying issue, the system will continue to have sticking plaster solutions that do nothing for long-term sustainability.
Windrush Statement
This Government is abandoning its pledges to the Windrush Generation.
People who have already suffered so much deserve better.
I pushed Home Office ministers on their inaction during a statement this week.