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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…

Improving health in the North

The Chancellor’s Spring Statement had to address a number of concerns. The most immediate is the state of the country’s finances particularly as we face Brexit turmoil. But he also had to address long term economic issues such as productivity and the regional gap. Productivity is lower in the North.…

Fairtrade Fortnight

This is Fairtrade Fortnight when individuals, companies and groups come together to celebrate food producers in otherwise exploited and unfair markets. This year the focus is on women with the She Deserves campaign. Farmers in West Africa need £1.86 a day to achieve a living income and that includes women…

World Cancer Day

Last week’s World Cancer Day brought organisations and people around the world together to raise awareness about cancer and work to make it a global health priority. Leading cancer charities brought their campaigns to Parliament and the statistics make stark reading. Half of people will get cancer in their lifetime.…

Still struggling over new laws

Apart from headline catching big Brexit votes the Government is struggling to get the laws in place to replace EU rules with UK rules before any deal happens. These include big bills covering issues such as trade, immigration, farming and fishing but also hundreds of bits of secondary legislation adding…

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