Labour’s Plan for Mental Health

Thank you to everyone who got in touch with me about mental health. I absolutely share your concern about the state of mental health services in this country, particularly for young people. It is utterly shameful that two-fifths of patients waiting for mental health treatment are forced to contact emergency…

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EU Retained Law Bill

Thank you to everyone who contacted me about the EU Retained Law Bill. I’ve received a huge number of constituent emails on this issue, and I absolutely share your concern about this Bill, which gives enormous power to the government to repeal and amend — but not improve — vast…

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Putting Human Rights at the Heart of Trade Policy

27 Sep 2021

Labour Party Conference 2021 Speech at New Statesman Event 27th September 2021 A Force For Good – Training provided in the UK to Overseas Military and Security Forces: Report and Recommendations from the Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade – Click on the link to read the full report. This…

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Trade Orals 19/11/2020

19 Nov 2020

Biden on Yemen   Joe Biden has spoken powerfully about the murder of children in Yemen, and said US values should never again be sacrificed to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. Boris Johnson has a choice: will he stand with the President-elect or continue serving as an apologist for Mohammed…

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Continuity Deals

19 Nov 2020

Dear Friends, In the House earlier, I challenged Ministers over the sheer, bumbling incompetence that has left £80 billion of vital UK trade with Canada, Mexico, Singapore and 12 other countries at risk, with time running out to get Continuity Agreements in place with them before January 1st. As ever,…

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Ridge on Sunday 08/11/2020

19 Nov 2020

Britain can work with the Biden administration on green technology to create new jobs and save our planet, an opportunity we never had with climate change deniers in the White House.

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Labour Connected

19 Nov 2020

UK Trade with Colombia Dear Friends, Here is the final speech I am going to share with you from Labour Connected, which was made at an event organised by the TUC and Justice for Colombia on the Peace Process and Human Rights Situation in Colombia. In my speech, I set…

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Labour Connected

19 Nov 2020

Open Labour Dear Friends, For those of you who couldn’t take part, I wanted to share some of the speeches I made at Labour’s online party conference, which took place instead of our usual Autumn gathering in Liverpool. First up was a speech I made to the Open Labour rally,…

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Tolpuddle Festival

19 Nov 2020

Workers’ Rights I was delighted to attend this year’s virtual Tolpuddle Festival for a session on human rights and trade, chaired by the Trades Union Congress’ Rosa Crawford.  I spoke about how the Tories are turning a blind eye to the abuse of workers’ rights in their desperation to fill…

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