Children growing up in our country deserve the best start in life – nothing less. Today’s Budget means we will deliver the largest reduction in child poverty in a single Parliament.

An active government making a difference for working people

This is your vote, your choice. You the members choose your Deputy Leader. Having this conversation is not dissent, but an important conversation about how we can be better. I will be your strong independent voice.

Labour is at its best when we are clear about whose side we are on, and in whose interests we serve, when our values shine through. I want us to be clear that our objective is to lift children out of poverty and that will mean we need to lift the 2 child benefit cap www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Speaking to Nick Robinson for Political Thinking on why I’m standing to be a full time Deputy Leader - being clear about whose side we are on, being a bridge between the movement & leadership, lifting the two child limit, the atrocities in Gaza and telling a unifying story 👇

Good luck to all those students who are collecting their GCSE results today. All the best for the future.

My friend the Mayor of @royalgreenwich.bsky.social sent off over 80 London Cabbies of the Albany Charity taking children with special needs to the coast for the day. What a great bunch of guys. They’ve been doing it for decades. Well done.

Congratulations @CAFofficial.

Good luck tonight @charltonathletic.bsky.social in tonight’s play off match.

Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day. This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945

On this day when we commemorate Victory in Europe Day, I am thinking of my parents and their generation. They endured so much, so that we can enjoy the freedoms we have today. As those who endured the war pass on it falls to our generation to pass on the lessons of that war.

According to the House of Commons Library in 2024, there were 55 sewage discharges into waterbodies in Eltham and Chislehurst from 2 storm overflows. In total, these sewage discharges lasted for 153 hours.

This week, we’ll make free breakfast clubs available for hundreds of thousands of children and begin to put up to £450 a year back into their parents’ pockets. That’s the difference a Labour government makes. That’s our Plan for Change in action. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

We must never forget.

I promised to fight for change people in Peckham could feel in their lives and see in their realities. Today, 4,500 of our lowest paid residents in Southwark will get a pay rise.

Good to have catch-up on Friday with @chislehurstmatters.bsky.social @marklong.bsky.social @alisonstammers.bsky.social and talk all things Chislehurst