Great to see new speed cushions being installed on Woodland Road and Norman Road, including outside the nurseries. This is all down to Esther Rai's persistence over many months.

Minimum wage rates go up this week, giving a pay rise to 2.7 million people. This is good news for working people – now let’s get on and deliver the New Deal for Working People in full. 🌹 @labourunionsuk.bsky.social

There's a spring in our step - out this evening talking to residents in Northfield ward. Lots of support for Esther Rai ahead of the election on 07 May.

Some of the things that we've helped residents with this week.

Wind and rain didn't take the shine off conversations with residents in Allens Cross ward earlier today - with our incredibly hard-working candidate, Seb Lovell-Huckle

Busy day talking to residents and picking up casework in support of great Labour councillors and candidates.

It's brilliant news that three schools in Birmingham Northfield are to get school-based nursery funding. That's more choice, better value for money, and helping with the drop-off/pick up where siblings are already at school.

Great to be back on the doorstep this weekend in support of Labour's candidates in the local elections.

Labour has halved the cost of childcare, and now we’re doing even more to make high-quality early years education more accessible and affordable. We’re cutting the cost of living and giving children the best start in life. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Cadbury's released their first Easter Egg 2 years later in 1875. They did put 'Easter Eggs' on the front of some of the packaging. You can see they had a range of Easter Egg products: - Plush egg - Satin egg - Plaited wicker egg - Silver chocolate egg - Boxes of plain chocolate eggs 3/

Really positive to help bring South and City College and Network Rail together this afternoon to talk about training and employment opportunities for young people in the area.

A well-timed (written before Nick Timothy's tweet) set of remarks about freedom, religious freedom and minority groups.

Keir Starmer has slammed Kemi Badenoch for refusing to sack Nick Timothy over these comments #pmqs

Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone celebrating Birmingham's Irish heritage

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

Some of the casework done for constituents over the last week 👇

Back out on the doorstep yesterday for Carmel Corrigan ahead May's local election

Embarrassing. Reform promised to 'fix' Worcestershire. They have no answers and no responsibility. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It was an absolute pleasure to meet Laurence Turner MP today & discuss our work supporting & empowering families in #Northfield. We hugely appreciate his understanding, insights & support regarding the needs of local schools and families, and #SEND in particular. @larry-turner.bsky.social

📉 Wait lists have fallen again by 43k in January - 374k in 18 months. 🚑 Fastest ambulance response in 5 years, down to less than 29 mins for heart attacks and stroke 🏥 A&E waits the shortest for four years despite a hugely demanding winter Lots done, lots more to do.

Great news that new rail services from Kings Norton to Stirchley, Moseley, and Kings Heath will start from 07 April! www.tfwm.org.uk/campaigns/me...

“As a child, at the age of 10, I was misdiagnosed with a stomach bug by my GP. I was later on that same night in a coma." Childhood Type 1 diabetes is detectable & a national screening programme is feasible. I hope that, in future, we can make sure no constituent goes through the experience again.

Labour MPs just voted to expand free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty. The Tories and Reform UK voted against. Only Labour will give children growing up in our country the best start in life.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to President Trump’s latest outburst. “The job of the British PM is to take decisions in the national interest of the U.K., not in the interests of other countries… we don’t outsource foreign policy to other countries”. #bbclaurak

Much of an MP's work is casework - fixing problems when someone is stuck in a queue for too long, or when a public or private agency hasn't resolved it. Here are some of the casework successes across Birmingham Northfield this week 👇

Ahead of World Book Day, it was great to meet @unison.org.uk members to celebrate the work of library staff. It was really important that we fought to save all Northfield constituency's libraries. Now that better funding is in place under Labour, hours are being extended again.

Many thanks to @leighinghammp.bsky.social for joining us on the doorstep in Northfield today!

Great to be back in Manchester for the Gorton and Denton by-election. Lots of positivity on the doorstep and people turning out to vote for Angeliki Stogia and Labour.

Amazing rally for our rights with union activists tonight, with Angela Rayner reminding us what's at stake tomorrow. A New Deal for Workers with Labour, or workers' rights in the bin with Reform. Join us tomorrow to help unity win over division: events.labour.org.uk/event/511742

Good to bring some West & East Midlands MPs together to talk to @heidialexander.bsky.social about the need to improve rail services within the Midlands, including: 🛤️Track upgrades to reduce journey times 🚄More carriages for overcrowded CrossCountry services 🏫More decisions taken locally

Reform’s Danny Kruger criticises UK’s ‘totally unregulated sexual economy’ Asked what role a political party could have in undoing the sexual revolution, Kruger said: “A limited but important one.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wrote something for the Birmingham Mail ahead of the Government's SEND reform proposals. It's not right that the barriers to support are higher than twenty years ago. The system needs to change, and there is much to welcome in these plans. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

It's clear who Reform UK stand for - and it's not workers. They seek to sow division, while committing to throw our hard-won rights on the scrapheap. labourunions.org.uk/stop-reform/

My views on the SEND reforms news today. This is my view as a parent of 2 children with SEND and as someone who cares deeply about the welfare of staff in the education system.

Hawkesley Pride in Place community meeting this Friday 👇

Our excellent colleague @thurrockjen.bsky.social has written an important piece on the need for SEND reform

Ahead of tomorrow's Schools White Paper and SEND consultation, it's important to say that the way @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and @georgiagould.bsky.social have engaged with MPs has been exemplary. They have listened, and I have faith that they will continue to listen.

Good news! The Representation of the People Bill will see major electoral reforms to improve our democracy! The Representation of the People Bill will: ✅ Let 16-17 year olds vote in UK elections ✅ Crack down on foreign interference with stricter donation rules

For too long too many children haven’t had the support they need to succeed. That must change. Labour will transform our schools system so every child can achieve and thrive. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Why does the government have to reform the SEND system? Because the current set up is completely broken - from our recent report, fewer than half (just 38%) of SENCOs report they are able to provide all or almost all of those with EHCPs in their school with the full support set out in their plan -

Kings Norton Park

It's an important day as Tory anti-worker restrictions are made a thing of the past. The Employment Rights Act is one of this government's most important achievements. Now we need to see it through. @labourunionsuk.bsky.social

Parliament is sometimes compared to a supposed 'golden age.' It's helpful to remember that individual MPs are more consequential than they were in the past. (The author, Michael Ryle, was a clerk in the House of Commons from 1951 to 1989).

The potholes on Rednal Road are a menace, and they have deteriorated further following the bad weather. Our petition to get Rednal Road fixed can be signed below 👇 laurence4northfield.com/posts/fix-re...

I thought this was an AI mock up because no man would be so monumentally idiotic, insensitive and intrusive as to punish women for not having children…but then it is Reform. Reform are not on yourside. Reform not care about women’s safety. Reform only see us as baby making machines.

Looks like we're in line for a new round of Employment Rights Act alarmism. The Times claims, from a CIPD survey, that 'more than half of businesses expected an increase in workplace conflict.' In reality, far more employers said each measure would have no impact on conflict or would reduce it.

‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

The rain it raineth - but we keep going. Good to be back out on the doorstep in Shenley in support of Labour's candidate Kiran Gulia.

Great canvassing team out this morning in Kings Norton North in support of Carmel Corrigan. Unsurprisingly, the state of Rednal Road came up. We're on the case.

It's official - Birmingham is no longer bankrupt. There's no underestimating the scale of the challenge ahead. But this is an important moment for the city. laurence4northfield.com/posts/birmin...