It was an absolute pleasure to speak at the Right to Equality reception in Parliament, to mark the historic commitment of this government to repeal the presumption of contact. This is going to save the lives of generations of children, giving them brighter and safer futures.

Will Netty return for breakfast? …No spoilers for those waiting to catch up but thrilled to see The Traitors showcase another kickass woman with limb difference! Glasgow mum and teacher has already made a splash 💦 in the first task. Loving the plot twist for the new series too🔮

Happy New Year! 🎉 I’m wishing everyone across our communities hope and happiness for 2026! As we start the new year, let’s keep working together to put our communities’ values of kindness, opportunity and fairness at the heart of everything we do.

Merry Christmas! ⭐ It is the privilege of my life to serve you as your Member of Parliament, and I'm grateful for every day that I'm able to represent you. This Christmas, let us celebrate the kindness and solidarity that keep our communities strong — today and every day.

Eeek, it’s Christmas Eve! 🎄🎅🎁 I’m wishing everyone in every community across Penistone and Stocksbridge a very Happy Christmas. I also wanted to say a massive thank you to all our posties, NHS staff, and public sector workers, who work so hard to make sure we can enjoy this festive period.

Animal welfare is one of the top issues constituents contact me about. It's also a personal matter to me, as my two cats remind me regularly! We are keeping our promise to improve the lives of animals thanks to the Animal Welfare Strategy launched by DEFRA today

Today is the end of Disability History Month. Every time I speak in Parliament, I know there are 14 million other disabled people sitting in wheelchairs or standing behind me. Here’s what I’ve been working on so far to create a society that treats every disabled person with dignity and respect 👇

Great to meet Rail Minister, Lord Hendy, recently to discuss the much needed improvements to the Penistone Line, including increasing line speeds and improving stations. This project is one of my top priorities as your MP, including campaigning for two trains an hour.

It was a pleasure to meet UNISON police staff and representatives from our South Yorkshire communities in Parliament earlier this week. Our police do a great job to support our communities and I'm backing them all the way to tackle antisocial behaviour and crime locally.

Great to see Octopus Energy confirm they will pass on the changes from the Autumn Budget 2025 to customers, cutting energy bills from 1st April 2026. Octopus is rightly calling on other energy suppliers to do the same. Our Government has acted to bring down the cost of living.

One of the proudest moments so far as your MP has been walking into 10 Downing Street with the incredible @ClaireThrossell. I'm incredibly proud that today, the Government have announced the largest crackdown on violence against women and girls in British history.

We did it! With 9 days to go we’ve smashed our target of raising £7,000 towards a fully accessible changing room at Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre!!! To all of our community and beyond, a huge heartfelt thank you for your generosity - whether you gave £3 or £50 this was a team effort ❤️ 💓 💝

More dentists, more appointments, and better access for patients.

On my way down to Parliament for the last week before Christmas Recess. Lots coming up this week, including the Employment Rights Bill and work on Mental Health policy. Happy Monday everyone!

This week, the Government have announced £3 billion to create 50,000 new specialist places in mainstream schools for children with SEND. As a former SEND-statement child myself, I know how important it is that every child has their needs met where they live.

Lots of you have asked how I swam 7km to raise £7,000 in 3 hours 50 minutes - You can find out in the Big Swim video! 👇 Featuring Kim Leadbeater and chocolate milkshake! Thank you so much for all the support, and please help us reach our £7k total! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/swim-penis...

Our Government have launched our landmark National Youth Strategy – the first in 15 years! This is a commitment to community, connection, and belonging to deliver tangible change for our young people who have been let down for too long.

When I saw the Alison Lapper pregnant sculpture in Trafalgar Square, it took my breath away. This Disability History Month, I want to highlight incredible disabled women like Alison. Let me know your disability heroes below!

The first ever Neurodivergent Birth Awareness Week has just come to a close! This week is being led by NeurodivergentBirth, an incredible mum-led organisation working to close the inequalities that neurodiverse women face during maternity.

Over 23% of children across Penistone and Stocksbridge are currently growing up in poverty. This is unacceptable. The Government's Child Poverty Strategy will lift 550,000 children out of poverty – the largest reduction of child poverty in a single Parliament since records began.

As Medical Technology Awareness Week comes to an end today, I wanted to highlight the difference medical technology, such as the Accessible Pushchair, can make for disabled mums like Kirsty and I. Thanks so much to Designability for everything you do!

It might’ve been that ‘fine rain that soaks you right through’ but that didn’t stop Cllr Alex Burnett, Frances Nixon and I getting out on the doorstep in Silkstone this weekend! We picked up lots of issues, including local traffic problems and improving local transport.

📣 #SmallBusinessSaturday 📣 I stopped by Shaw’s Fish and Chips in Dodworth, who are shortlisted for the title of National Fish and Chip Awards 2026. They’re officially top 10 in the country - I can confirm that they have my backing too! 🐟🍤🍟

It’s#SmallBusinessSaturday! I thoroughly enjoyed popping into Tulip Florist on the High Street in Dodworth and meeting florist Alison Andrews. Massive thank you to Alison for talking to me about your work and showing me around the shop! 💐

"I want our local pool to train the next generation of Paralympiads." Thanks to @ITVCalendar for covering my 7km for £7k swim. I’d love to reach our £7k target. We’re at just over £5,100 so I’d really appreciate any donations to close the gap: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/swim-penis...

Reform can't be bothered to turn up. Reform MPs don’t care about ensuring the NHS is free at the point of use, they weren't in the room on the Hillsborough Law debate or the Bus Services debate. Where are Reform?

I did it! 🎉🌊🥳 So proud to say that I completed my 7km swim today in 3 hours 50 mins, all to raise the money for a fully accessible changing room at Stocksbridge Leisure Centre. It was a huge challenge and I’d love to reach our £7k target: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/swim-penis...

It was wonderful to welcome Lucy Powell, our Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, to Wortley Hall for our Winter Fundraiser for our brilliant 2026 local candidates. Thank you to Lucy for a terrific speech, all the Wortley Hall staff for looking after so well and Brass Band for entertaining us!

It was a pleasure to meet Joan - a regular user of our new 35 Hopper bus 🚌! As she says “if you don’t use them, you lose them!” With the Christmas season coming up, there’s a great opportunity for everyone to make the most of them 🎄🤶🎅

Sometimes I pinch myself... this week I got to meet the incredible Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand. She was a beacon of hope and global leadership for me during the pandemic. The example she sets on compassionate politics is outstanding.

Each week of this Disability History Month I want to highlight people with disabilities throughout history who have inspired me. I chatted about how Sheffield's very own Lord David Blunkett inspired me growing up on Matt Forde's podcast 👇

It always brings a smile to my face when I see people with limb difference represented, like this TFL poster I saw whilst heading back home from Parliament! 🚂

It’s incredible news that in repealing the Two Child Benefit Cap, lifting 450,000 children out of poverty, the Chancellor yesterday announced in the Budget that the vile “rape clause” will also be removed. It is dehumanising, it is cruel and we will remove it from law.

I’m so proud that our Labour Government are removing the two child benefit cap from April - announced in today’s Budget. This will lift over a massive 450,000 children out of poverty across the country. This is the difference a Labour Government makes.

I dropped into Barnardos’ event in Parliament marking #NationalCareLeaversMonth to sign their Care Leavers pledge Our Children and Wellbeing Bill takes an important step forward to bring forward to achieve the transformative change we want to see.

Today the Chancellor announced that the Labour Government is returning £2.3 billion to 40,000 former coal miners, coal board staff and their families. We owe a debt of gratitude to these men and women who built and powered our country for generations.

It's National Cake Day tomorrow! 🍰 I was thrilled to bring down homemade and beautifully decorated rose cakes and portcullis design from @Bake&Butty in Penistone to Parliament this week. I'm always so proud to showcase the brilliant work of our local businesses!

Today is White Ribbon Day – an annual campaign day calling for the end of Violence Against Women and Girls. It was great to sit down with my fantastic colleague Emily Darlington to hear more about why this day is so important. www.whiteribbon.org.uk

One of the best parts of my job is sharing my passion for politics and public service with young people across our schools. Ahead of UK Parliament Week, I spoke on Penistone FM about the opportunity for schools to see democracy in action down in Westminster.

With less than a week to go until I swim 7km for £7k, I spoke with Graham Silverwood, Chair at Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre – the place where my swimming journey began, and where I’m fundraising for a fully accessible changing room. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/swim-penis...

Today is the start of UK Parliament Week! As the first MP for our constituency in 100 years to have grown up here, it's so important to me to use my position to help others from our communities engage with Parliament.

RAIL FARES FROZEN! 🚂❄️ The government are freezing rail fares in England next year for the first time in 30 years. This fare freeze will directly bring down the cost of living, and make train travel more affordable.

Half a million more children will get access to Labour’s free breakfast clubs next year! Applications have opened for the next wave of free breakfast clubs - I’ll be writing to all our eligible local primary schools to help and encourage them to apply for this next wave.

Prescription charges frozen! ❄️ Ahead of the Budget next week, the Government have announced they will freeze prescription charges next year – taking firm action to tackle the cost of living. No one should put their health at risk because they can’t afford their medication.

This week, the Labour Government published England’s first ever Men’s Health Strategy – from cancer, to cardiovascular disease, and mental health. For the first time we're taking comprehensive, coordinated action to address the specific health challenges facing men and boys.

Yesterday marked Carers Rights Day. This year's theme is “Know your rights, use your rights”. Everyday, 12,000 people become unpaid carers for a partner, family member, or a friend, often unaware of their legal rights and what support and benefits they’re entitled to.

Representation of disabled people in broadcast tv, both on and off screen, has doubled since 2018, as reported by the @tweetCDN. Earlier this week, I raised in Parliament the need to go further, to double disability representation again, both on and off our tv screens.

Today is the start of Disability History Month. It was wonderful to have Yasmina Bez with me on a work shadowing day in Parliament, who did an amazing job helping me with an Access Audit around Parliament. This House belongs to all of us - I’ll do all I can to improve accessibility for everyone.

This International Men’s Day, I want to highlight the current 15.5% pay gap for disabled men – leaving them earning £4,000 less per year than non-disabled workers. We know an unacceptable pay gap is also an acute problem for men with mental health conditions. 🧵

It was fantastic to celebrate the start of Disability History Month at a Reception at The Speaker’s House. Looking forward to working with specialist Accessibility Arcitect, Rosie Scott, on some exciting projects soon.