News Guardian Articles - Alan Campbell MP for Tynemouth

Credit where it’s due

Pension Credit was introduced by the previous Labour Government to help lift and keep people aged 65 or over out of poverty. It comes in two parts. Guarantee Credit which tops up your weekly income if it’s below £167.25 for a single person or £255.25 for couples. Savings credit is…

Highlighting the dangers of forced marriage

One of my team of whips is getting married this weekend on what will be a great and memorable day. For some young women that’s not the case. Forced Marriage is a hidden problem and the Government’s current campaign to highlight the danger is welcome. Too often young victims, not…

Crime rising as cuts bite

The news that recorded crime is up across the parliamentary estate should come as no great surprise. With thousands of people working in Parliament and more than a million visitors annually there’s no reason why such an iconic place should be immune from the rise in crime nationally. We are…

Paying the price for austerity

The fixation of Tory leadership candidates on Brexit means they are in danger of becoming a One Notion rather than One Nation party. Putting aside the cost of crashing out, little thought is being given to what a post Brexit country might actually look like. All progressive parties should care…

Reflecting on recent elections

Parliament returned this week in the certain knowledge that there will be less drama in the chamber than in the leadership elections playing out in the committee rooms. A few weeks ago I predicted that politics was in for a bumpy ride. Little did I know that we’d lose a…

More countries face debt crisis

The Jubilee Debt Campaign was one of the best and most successful campaigns I have seen. The campaign nearly twenty years ago called for the relief of international debt which was holding back the development of some of the poorest countries in the world. I am particularly proud that some…

Workers Memorial Day 2019

During last weekend’s Workers Memorial Day service at St John’s Church, dedicated to health and safety at work I was reminded of the award winning Titanic Museum in Belfast. In the dock where Titanic was built there are the names of those who died or were injured, the empty spaces…

Politics is in for a bumpy ride

It remains to be seen whether the short Easter break has improved the atmosphere and mood at Westminster but as Brexit talks resume the Commons took the opportunity to discuss other issues. An Opposition Day debate allowed us rather than the Government to choose the subject for debate. We chose…

English Tourism Week

Last week Parliament celebrated English Tourism Week with an event to highlight the opportunities tourism has for the economy. This year saw the eighth annual English Tourism Week but also marks the 50th anniversary of the Tourism Act and the British Tourist Authority. I met the Tourism Minister to discuss…

A week is a long time in politics

Harold Wilson famously said a week is a long time in politics, so writing a column at the start of a week to be read at the end is always risky. The 2016 EU Referendum was meant to bring the country together but actually achieved the opposite. I voted to…

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