The BIGGEST game in National League history this weekend: Rochdale vs York City. We’re both desperate for automatic promotion, but there’s a bigger message from Parliament to the pitch: this is proof we need #3UP. Bring on Saturday, may the best team win. 🏆⚽️ #ycfc #rafc

Games don’t come bigger than #RAFC vs #YCFC this weekend. Two 100+ point teams head-to-head on the final day for promotion? Proof we need #3UP. That’s why @paulwaughmp.bsky.social and I have written to DAZN asking for it to be free-to-air. Up the Minstermen! 🔴🔵📄⬇️

In any EFL league, both us and Rochdale would already be celebrating promotion. Instead? A final-day head-to-head between us and #RAFC, despite both teams hitting 100+ points. Brutal but fitting. So close yesterday, but it wasn’t to be. All to play for next weekend! #ycfc 🔴🔵

Know anything about Restore Britain, the party that span out of Reform UK? Here’s all you need to know.

A helpful reminder for anyone who needs one: Reform UK was called the Brexit Party before 2021. In 2019, Farage said there was “no difference between the Brexit Party and UKIP in terms of policy.” Same politics. New branding. Don’t be fooled.

Miss one payment and you could face a bailiff at your door 🚪 I have been working with StepChange & Ministers to push for fairer, more consistent council tax debt collection that supports vulnerable people 🤝 We need a system that helps people recover financially, not makes things worse.

Football fan? Listen up. ⚽️

Toxic content is sometimes just a few clicks away. That worries me as a parent.

Northerner? ✅ Listen up to this. ⬇️

For context, the most expensive general admission at Euro 2020 at Wembley was €945 (£825). This? Ten times that. TEN. TIMES. A disgrace. A sport built by working-class fans, now only for those with the deepest pockets. FIFA = Football Is For the Affluent. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Reform pretend to be on the side of working people. The reality? They’re led by snobby millionaires who have no idea how much cost-of-living support matters to families. They’re not on your side. Labour is.

𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 ⚡ From today, households will see around £117 off energy bills thanks to the price cap first proposed by Ed Miliband in 2013. Labour’s plan for clean, homegrown energy means lower bills, greater energy security and protection from global price shocks.

💡Energy price capped. 📈National Living Wage increased. 💷National Minimum Wage increased. 💊Prescription charge frozen. 🖍️Funded childcare for 3 & 4-year-olds. ✅Day-one family leave. ⬆️State pension increased. This Labour Government IS tackling the cost of living. Change.🌹

Farage wants to cut young people’s pay. Labour thinks otherwise. That’s why the minimum wage goes up today under our watch. 🦕 Dinosaurs vs doers. 🌹

Next time you go to fill your car up, remember this video.⛽️🎥

🚨𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃: 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐔𝐊’𝐬 “𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠” 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧 🇮🇷 Favoured escalating the Iran war, pushing up petrol and energy costs to extreme levels 💷 Oppose national minimum wage increases, particularly for young workers 1/

“Trail hunting” isn’t some quaint countryside tradition. It’s a loophole to keep fox hunting alive. Foxes torn apart while right-wing politicians look the other way. Or even worse, defend it. No longer. Labour's a step closer to banning it for good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Askham Bryan are doing fantastic work with their Level 2 apprenticeships and T Level courses. The place is packed with talented students and brilliant staff. Great to get out for a few hours, meet some of the lambs and enjoy a bit of Yorkshire sunshine! 🐑 ☀️

Farage has ignored football for YEARS. Except of course when he opposed creating a new independent regulator to stand up for fans. But this week? Suddenly he’s at Ipswich. Now he’s talking about Sunderland. Why? Opportunism. 1/2

Britain has a problem with accent snobbery: it’s time we talked about it. Jumped on Chopper’s Podcast this week to get into that, plus cherry pickers, social media bans and more. Thanks to Christopher Hope, top interviewer and bloke. Watch the full chat 👇 youtu.be/72yv31r0ick?si…

Let’s talk about all these right-wing stunts for a second. This week alone we’ve had:   🚛 Kemi Badenoch posing with a fuel truck   ⛽ Robert Jenrick at a petrol station in Dover   ⚽ Nigel Farage at a football ground   Look, every party does the odd stunt. 1/

Foreign cryptocurrencies flooding into our politics? Not anymore, thanks to Labour’s announcements. ✅🌹

Labour’s making children’s futures brighter. Here’s how. ⬇️✅

@nus-uk.bsky.social @rethinkrepayment.bsky.social and others have rightly put student finance on the agenda, and everyone agrees we need a fairer system. 🎓 What does that look like to you? Share your ideas below.

I watched Inside the Manosphere on Netflix. Uncomfortable, eye-opening, and hard to ignore. 🎬 Here’s my TEN unfiltered thoughts.

Over the weekend I watched Inside the Manosphere by Louis Theroux. As the youngest parent in Parliament, I spend a lot of time thinking about the world my two boys will grow up in. So here are my thoughts. Unfiltered. ** MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS **

🇪🇺🎓 A cuppa and a catch up about Erasmus coming back! Great to have Amira and Alex from @nus-uk.bsky.social pop into my parliamentary office for a cuppa and a chat about the UK rejoining Erasmus+. ☕️

What does the future of Britain’s railways look like? I saw it for myself at York Station🚉 From complex signalling to tough weather and busy routes, apprentices get hands on, high tech training that builds real confidence. 🎮🌧️ York has been at the heart of the railways and it will continue to be.💪

We all need to think about how social media is shaping our children’s lives. 💭📱 But don’t just take my word for it. After convening a consultation in York, I gathered reflections from a parent, a former teacher, and a therapeutic counsellor who works with children. Here are their thoughts.🗣️

Today is Love Your Pet Day, and I've given Woody, Pretzel, and Basil extra treats. Pets are family, and that's why I've supported reforms for more transparent and fair vet bills. I discussed with the York Press how this will ease unexpected costs for families, allowing them to focus on pet care.🐶

Inspired by York’s amazing teachers! We’re so lucky to have the National STEM Learning Centre at the University of York, training the teachers of tomorrow. In a world full of change, maths, science, tech, and engineering skills matter more than ever! 🥼🧮

Yesterday, I brought together constituents, parents, grandparents, carers who work with children, Professor Lisa Henderson, Head of Psychology at the University of York, and Peter Roderick from the City of York Council to share their thoughts on social media. A huge thanks to all who came along. 💬📲

Had a brilliant visit to Network Rail in York! 🚆 Great to see the next generation of rail pros being trained right here in the heart of our city. I even tried a train simulator… let’s just say any Yorkshire Tea on board wouldn’t have survived my braking! 🫖

We are so lucky in York to have so much on our doorstep, and in some cases on our buildings thanks to the commemorative plaques placed by York Civic Trust. It was brilliant to visit the Trust and Fairfax House this week. A huge thank you to the dedicated staff and volunteers who do so much.

What a night for York Knights! Opening Super League with a win over reigning champions Hull KR. One of the biggest upsets you’ll see. With the Knights flying and York City pushing for promotion, it’s a brilliant time to be a sports fan in York. 🔵🟡

Every football fan knows it’s time the National League had three promotion spots, not just the #ycfc fan in me. Proud to back #3UP with Paul Waugh. One of Rochdale or York will miss out on automatics & I hope it’s not us! The EFL Board meets in March to discuss this: it’s time. 🔴🔵

Reform and Nigel Farage want to end working from home. Literally NOBODY asked for that. Want to hear the truth? ⬇️💥

Labour is delivering for this country. 🌹 Make no mistake. Today, we move forward. 2026 will be the year Britain gets its mojo back. ✅

So much achieved. Much more to do. As a united team let’s keep challenging Reform’s divisive agenda, all whilst delivering for the British people. 🌹💪🏽

@lukecharters.bsky.social mentions Best for Britain’s research during PMQs 🚨 “An EU agrifood deal would boost exports and cut supermarket prices. The CBI backs it, and according to Best for Britain’s polling, 62% of the public do too."

Reform’s been mysteriously quiet about their DOGE work recently. Maybe it’s because they’ve spent: 🅿️ £600k on free councillor parking in Kent 💷 £1.4m on “cost-cutting” consultants in Leicestershire 🏢 £5,000/day on empty offices in Worcestershire So much for “efficiency”. 🤡

Reform have no answers. Ask them how they’ll rebuild the NHS. Ask them how they’ll lower bills. Ask them how they’ll build homes. You’ll only hear slogans, blame, and outrage, because they have nothing else. They are simply: Turquoise Tories.

Farage just called Reform “UKIP”. Says it all.

Mayor David Skaith and I have been working really closely together to push for vital transport links in our region, and this week the Transport Secretary popped up to York to formally sign the NPR compact. Great to catch up with David following this exciting moment for both York, and Yorkshire!

The expansion of 30 hours of funded childcare is a game-changing step forward for families 👶✨ However the funded hours kick in the term after the child turns 9 months old. This means some children may be even 13 months old before they get their funded hours, which I highlighted in Parliament 🌟📣

Food inflation skyrocketed after the Tories & Reform’s botched Brexit. 😐 So I’m campaigning to bring prices down and cut the cost of living, starting with a UK favourite: the meal deal. 🥪 It’s time to give something back to the grafters out getting their lunch. ✅

🚆If we had a £1 for every press release under the Conservatives about rail in the North, maybe we could have actually delivered new stations…🤔 Whether it’s journeys from Leeds to Shef, Bradford to Huddersfield, or York to Manchester - hear why I think NPR is a huge game-changer for the North 💪🏽

A rail revolution is happening in the North! 💪🚆 After years of Tory decline, and with Reform now threatening to scrap it, Labour is delivering Northern Powerhouse Rail and renewed optimism for our region that has been overlooked for too long. ✅🌹

Jenrick’s managed the rare feat of becoming so unwanted that even Farage would look desperate taking him on. Looking forward to his video on this one. Lol.

The student loan misselling scandal? Labour inherited a student loan system designed by the Tories that can only be described as “Frankenstein’s monster”. I raised Plan 2 loans in Parliament, for the millions of graduates fed up of paying the price of a poor Tory era policy.