News Guardian Articles - Alan Campbell MP for Tynemouth

Growth the number one priority

This week I met with small businesses and their representatives at an event hosted by Sage to discuss ways of getting more growth in the North East economy and how best they can work with Mayors. We said that growth was the number one priority of this Government and we…

Renters Reform Bill

The Renters Reform Bill returned to the House of Commons this week to build on and actually deliver some of the changes planned by the previous administration and importantly to help redress the power imbalance between landlord and tenant. Housing has steadily crept up the political agenda driven not only…

Happy New Year

I would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year and also wish North Shields a happy 800th anniversary. By 1225 shiels – fishermen’s huts – were built along the banks of the Tyne which began the township which we know as North Shields. Just over a…

Merry Christmas

I hope you and your loved ones are able to spend some quiet time to celebrate Christmas. 2024 has been a hectic year. It began in the knowledge that the Conservative Government had less than a year left but it was still one of the big surprises of 2024 was…

Getting Britain Working

There is a longstanding acceptance that the Government has a responsibility to help and support people who can work to do so, but equally that people have a responsibility to take up that offer. Unfortunately, in recent years that commitment from Government has not been there. Britain is the only…

Carers Rights Day

The cost of children’s social care has soared in the last fourteen years costing councils dearly but at the same time letting down families. Despite a major review under the last Government no action was taken. The new Government’s approach will seek to pre-empt children being taken into care where…

COP29 – An important opportunity to act

Next week COP29 meets in Baku, Azerbaijan to plan the next stage of the fight against climate change. Climate change is a threat to national security and to global growth. By 2050 more than 250 million people may be forced to migrate to avoid the effects of climate change, driving…

Budget a big moment

Budgets are always big moments in the parliamentary calendar and next week’s budget will be bigger than most. Not only is it the first budget of the new Government but the economic and financial backdrop is the worst for a long time. When we were in Opposition, we were made…

World Mental Health Day

This week sees World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme set by the World Federation of Mental Health is workplace mental health. The theme highlights the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. Safe, healthy working environments can act as a protective factor for mental health. Unhealthy…

Party Conference Season

It’s Party Conference season again with MP’s and the party faithful heading off for days of political discussion and debate. Previously they headed to seaside towns like Blackpool, Brighton or even Scarborough; nowadays its more likely to be a major northern city with enough hotels and restaurants to cater for…

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