Two in five arrested for the summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse. Police data shows overlap between public violent disorder + domestic abuse. I wonder what the stat will be today? Our country is so much better than Yaxely Lennon and his crew. The majority of us love, not hate🫶

Labour councils in London are making our communities fairer, safer and greener. Labour councils are building the affordable homes our capital needs. Don’t risk it all tomorrow - vote Labour ⬇️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

🌹 Happy May Day - a day to celebrate and defend workers' rights around the world. While there's much more to do, we’re proud the Labour Government's Employment Rights Act has delivered the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation.

It’s the Bristol Green Party who removed BDA2901 ‘Housing and/or housing for older people’ off the plan for Southmead, instead allowing it to be used for a van dweller site. It was Bristol Labour Party that did the groundwork for a huge social housing devt. of 177 homes on Glencoyne Sq. Southmead.

Online pornography is not just entertainment, it has become a harmful form of education. It promotes the idea that pain for women is pleasure for men. It instils the notion that to be close to a woman is to dominate or degrade her.

The truth of the Green Party is that when in power they don’t deliver. #VoteLabour

🆕 The Labour Government is funding a new Youth Club in Bristol ❤️‍🩹 The closure of over 1,000 youth centres since 2010 didn't just take away facilities, it took away community, connection and opportunity for a generation 🌹 We are determined to rebuild that www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bristol Labour have been championing women’s safety at night. This guidance will help us make our streets better and safer. www.activetravelengland.gov.uk/news/nationw...

Aggression is not activism, and tactics designed to intimidate politicians have no place in our society.

We've secured £45 million to get more homes built on brownfield sites in the West! This investment will help us to tackle the housing crisis in our region, as we step up our efforts to build the right homes in the right places, with the vital services and infrastructure to go alongside them.

⚡️ 150 new Electric Vehicle chargers are being rolled out across Bristol 🙌🏻 These new chargers are funded by Helen Godwin, Labour Mayor of the West of England, and City Leap - the landmark decarbonisation project agreed by the former Labour administration www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Great to speak to @bristol247.bsky.social about women’s safety in parks and green spaces for this article. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Happy International Women’s Day to all women in Bristol and beyond.

More support for survivors. Too often, victims and survivors are trapped in abusive situations because of debt and financial dependence. Today I’m committing an additional £9m to help survivors across London access vital services, build skills and get the jobs they need to secure their futures.

What other product would a company get away with saying this about? If a business admitted that children would inevitably be harmed by its product but said ‘that’s just the way it is, we’ll do what we can’, it would never be allowed on the market. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🌹 Labour is helping Bristol families with the cost of living. 💷 This April bills are coming down, the minimum wage is going up and train fares and prescriptions are frozen. More money in your pocket.

Some really welcome news from the Government today! ✅ Powers to speed up implementation of children’s wellbeing consultation outcome ✅ Preserving online data in tragic events of children’s deaths ✅ Powers to close loopholes to keep AI chatbots safe from illegal content

“We were crushed by the horror” but “I’m a survivor” Gisèle Pelicot speaks to #Newsnight

Huge numbers of Labour activists out today in Denton, Burnage and, with me in Levenshulme, @edmilibandmp.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social, Angeliki Stogia, speaking to progressive voters who recognise that only we can stop Reform across the whole constituency.

"Epstein victims and Al-Fayed victims are watching what we do - they're not listening to what we say." MP Natalie Fleet says it’s time to talk about the victims of sexual abuse with the same passion we’re talking about how bad the government is. @lewisgoodall.com

Well said by Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The media coverage is unrelenting and, at the centre of it all, are the lives of the girls that were devastated by abuse. Imagine if we just believed women and girls the first time round. Solidarity with survivors everywhere.

We're working with Bristol Charities to launch a first-of-its-kind food and essentials distribution hub. Bringing together charities from across the West would help reach more people in crisis, with FareShare South West able to deliver an extra 3 million meals by 2030.

Amidst the noise, we must never forget the voices of the women and children who were trafficked and assaulted for years by Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful accomplices. Mandelson should never have been pushed for the role of US ambassador, he and other hugely powerful men must be held to account.

Tonight, Labour MPs voted to scrap the two child limit – a move that puts us on course to drive the biggest reduction of child poverty in a single Parliament. The Tories and Reform UK voted against it. Don’t let anyone tell you voting Labour doesn’t make a difference 🌹

📣 Our statement on the plans for Park Street

I am extremely concerned by the proliferation of dangerous ‘rape kits’. Victims of sexual assault and rape should get help directly from professionals: www.nhs.uk/live-well/se... www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-an...

When Maria was sexually assaulted, she used an Enough kit to take a self DNA swab. Her friend posted it and then it was lost. My follow up to my July investigation into Enough www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-an...

We can't walk on water, but the UK can start to run on it! Tidal power can help lead our clean energy transition. The Severn Estuary has the second-biggest tide in the world, and we need to harness that to deliver energy that is cheap, renewable, safe, and reliable.

We’re announcing the next 500 schools to join the Best Start free breakfast club programme. Support is being targeted to the 300,000 children who need it most. Labour is giving our children the best start in life – no matter their background or postcode. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Every one of homes was under construction during the Labour administration All Councillor Parsons has done is attend ribbon-cutting ceremonies, pat himself on the back, and cut over 2,000 homes from the council housebuilding programme…

A rainy but very positive morning in Henleaze talking to local residents about local and national issues.

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

🚨 REMINDER: Only Labour will improve SEND support. The Tories left behind a ‘lose, lose, lose’ system in their own words. Reform UK will cut SEND support. They blame ‘naughty children’ & ‘bad parenting’. Only Labour will build a system where every child can achieve & thrive.

It will surprise precisely *no one* that Reform-led West Northants Council is amongst the worst in the country for potholes. Despite a record £7.3 billion being given by this Labour Govt to local authorities for roads. Infuriating. Just sort it out! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

ICYMI – Labour are boosting animal welfare protections! The changes proposed in the new Animal Welfare Strategy for England include: 🦊 Banning trail hunting; 🪤 ending the use of snare traps; 🐔 banning hen cages; 🐷 banning pig farrowing crates; 🐶 and ending puppy smuggling & farming.

🅿️ Bristolians have long called for action on pavement parking. Until now, councils have not had the legal powers to effectively tackle this problem - the Labour Government is changing that 👇 www.gov.uk/government/n...

X is not safe for women - this is absolutely disgusting and will push women out of public life, so much of which is now online. That's not free speech, it's harassment (note - example below is thankfully age restricted, so only the prompts are visible and not the generated images).

Great to see Enough’s harmed being called out more and more Police warn victims are being duped into buying self-swab rape kits www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

A grand total of 10 Conservatives (one woman) and 0 Reform present for a statement on the VAWG strategy. Clearly protecting women and girls isn’t that much of a priority for them.

"Kemi Badenoch has to use people like me to give her any kind of relevance," @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social tells @lewisgoodall.com, responding to Badenoch's criticism of her handling of violence against women & girls. "She should probably apologise to the girls who might have been raped."

🚨 Tory austerity is over. 🌹 The Labour Government is boosting Bristol City Council's core spending power by £161.3 million 👇

UPDATE: Employment Rights Bill passed! Labour delivering: ✅ Better Pay ✅ Better Conditions ✅ Better Jobs Labour in action

Government announces extra funding for safe housing for domestic abuse survivors – UK politics live

Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-up

Today, I remember all those who have lost their lives to HIV-AIDS. On World AIDS Day 2025, the Labour government is launching a new HIV Action Plan, backed by £170m of funding. Shoutout to www.brigstowe.org in Bristol, for all you have done and continue to do 👏

🕯️ Deputy Leader of Bristol Labour, Carole Johnson: “I’m deeply honoured to be standing here tonight. Whilst I’m grateful for this gathering, I’m also very saddened by the profound need for it. Yet here we are, united in purpose.” www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

🎭 The Council's Cultural Investment Programme is a lifeline for Bristol's grassroots culture sector. Yet, the Green-led council is set to gut the fund ❗️ This would have profound consequences for Bristol's cultural scene. The Greens need to u-turn www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...