Tonight, Rosh Hashanah marks the start of the Jewish New year, 5786. This is a chance to pause, look back, and realign to begin anew. I will be taking a few days off but my office is open and my team available for anyone who needs advice or support. שנה טובה ומתוקה A good and sweet year! 🍎🍯✨

Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene. They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.

Warrington Running Festival 10k in the bag this morning. I've still not cracked "enjoying a single minute of running" while I'm doing it, but am very pleased to have finished all the same and to be able to raise money for local good causes in the process! Well done to everyone who took part 🏅👏

With just over 90% of the vote at tonight's meeting, Warrington North Constituency Labour Party have nominated @lucympowell.bsky.social for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 🌹

Lovely to spend a few hours at The Old School project today- an amazing community space with so many different local groups that have made it their home, the dreamiest garden, ceramics studio, and therapy dog Bella! Find out more about events and classes for all ages here: theoldschoolproject.org

Our great Deputy Leaders have connected the heart of the Party with the head of the government - that’s what I’ll do. I spoke to @theguardian.com about why I’m standing as a full-time Deputy Leader and how we can succeed and do better: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yesterday, I joined the Hillsborough families, Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney General, Victims Minister, Andy Burnham, Steve Rotherham and MPs in Liverpool for a final meeting ahead of something truly monumental happening later today: The Hillsborough Law will be laid before Parliament.

Congratulations to Warrington's own Owen Cooper, who last night became the youngest ever male winner of an acting Emmy for his performance in Adolescence 🏆 Owen said: "I think tonight proves that if you listen and you focus and you step out of your comfort zone, you can achieve anything in life".

Thank you to 1330 Warrington Squadron Air Training Corps - Royal Air Force Air Cadets for inviting me to today's Service of Remembrance, Praise and Thanksgiving for the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at St Elphin's Church. "Vivere in corda nos relinquere non mori" 🇬🇧

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇

What a night with Creating Adventures at their firewalking fundraiser to support their amazing work with adults with autism and learning disabilities in our community! 🔥 Some MPs might say they'd walk across hot coals for their constituents as a rhetorical flourish, I mean it very literally.

Did you know Warrington once had its own Norman Castle? It was one of the largest motte-and-bailey castles and, hidden under the town for almost a thousand years, the Warrington Castle collective are bringing it back to life including via a virtual reality tour! Learn more: warringtoncastle.co.uk

A busy day of surgeries, and meetings with the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB and Warrington Hospital, done and it's the first day this week I've been able to head home for the day while it's still light outside which I'm enjoying while it lasts as we head towards winter! Shabbat shalom y'all ❤️

How brilliant is this? Warrington's own Owen Cooper, fresh off the back of his National Television Award win, on Jimmy Kimmel and reppin' Warrington Rylands Football Club! 💙

Lucy has a track record of being a real champion of backbenchers. This engagement is vital to ensuring we can unite the PLP after a difficult first year, using all the experience and talent we have to best serve our communities and country- something I know she'll bring to the role of Deputy Leader!

Mental health group set up by Orford lads has been shortlisted for BBC award

Sending all my love to @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social and her team as her constituency office was entirely destroyed overnight. Attacks and threats directed toward MPs are an affront to our very democracy. www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/o...

Not immediate enough unfortunately, as he should never have been appointed in the first place.

As the region with the largest number of Labour seats to be defended at the next GE, the loss of some excellent colleagues including Justin Madders and Lucy Powell from the frontbench is disheartening, and will mean Govt having to work much harder on listening to and delivering for the North West.

Might start a petition to make the quiet carriage on a train also quiet from long monologues over the tannoy on what's on offer in the onboard shop, upselling ticket upgrades & the fact the train is delayed enough for delay repay (which is inevitable on an Avanti service) after every station stop 🙃

The weather today might have been a traditionally awful British late summer downpour, but it didn't dampen any spirits at the Ukrainian Family Hub Warrington celebrations for Ukrainian Independence Day at The Daten! 🌻🇺🇦🇬🇧

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Hope 100 Warrington 5K and 10K walk ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day. It was wonderful to take part in the 10K and to have so many conversations about mental health, wellbeing and how we can as a community support each other when times are hard 💛💙

I’m incredibly sad to see my friend Angela Rayner leave government. We can’t now risk losing touch with who we are and who our party was founded to serve. Whatever comes next, the Labour Party must speak to, deliver for and unite the country. That’s what people asked us to do last year.

Something particularly tasteless about this when his own tax arrangements are hardly above reproach. Angela was found to have acted with integrity, but nonetheless breached the Ministerial Code and resigned. Farage wouldn't know what integrity looks like. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wonderful to see the Early Years Minister visiting the partnership between Cinnamon Brow C of E Primary School and Let's Be Kids Cinnamon Brow, which is such a fantastic facility for parents and children in our community, as part of the best start school-based nurseries rollout! 🙌

Reprising my role as duck catcher at the Great Warrington Duck Race, with Richard from Warrington Rowing Club as skipper, like a giant hook-a-duck in the Mersey! A great annual event raising funds for the Warrington Christmas Pyjama Appeal- thank you to all the volunteers, sponsors and supporters 🦆

My latest @warringtonguardian.bsky.social column on some highlights from a busy Summer Recess, and the messages I'll be taking back to Westminster when Parliament returns tomorrow! www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/2541892...

A beautiful sunny day at the Warrington MELA - full of colour, dancing, food, music and communities coming together to showcase the different cultures that make up our town's rich tapestry! As Jo Cox said, "we are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us” 🇬🇧❤️

Fell down a Joni Mitchell rabbit hole over Recess and this happened. Have picked up a few song books to teach myself how to play it, but any pointers are gratefully received in the possibly unlikely event any of my followers here happen to be dulcimer players too 😌

Good luck to Warrington Rowing Club's Lucy Glover and Cam Nyland, selected to represent Team GB in the 2025 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai! We're all rooting for you 🇬🇧🚣‍♀️🏅👏

A good read from Zoe, ft. me as the resident Luddite. I'm v sceptical about AI which seems to be increasingly pitched as the answer to everything, usually because we're asking the wrong question (the right one here being: are MPs offices appropriately resourced to meet the level of demand on them?)

3 episodes in to Hostage and while I can just about suspend my disbelief about the overall premise for the sake of telly, what I can't believe is that the Speaker would ever allow an intervention in a Statement or for the PM and LOTO to be repeatedly calling each other "you" in the Chamber 😱

Reform MPs have voted against new rights and protections for you at work again, and again, and again. They say they’re on the side of working people – but their actions say otherwise.

Lovely to drop into the HAF programme at St Stephen’s primary, run by St. Joseph's Family Centre. The kids were in high spirits & clearly really enjoying themselves! With sessions across Warrington, there's still spaces if your kids want to join in the fun- www.warrington.gov.uk/find-and-boo...

Jenrick can't control who stands in the background of his photos, but he can decide whether to attend protests with a far-right message and a documented history of being organised by the far-right. He knows this. He goes anyway. Once upon a time it would have been a sackable offence.

A huge congratulations to Spectrum Striders on the 40th Birchwood 10k today! Thank you to all the volunteers at this entirely club-run event, and particularly to the marshalls who provided so much encouragement to back of the pack runners like me who took part. It's truly an event for everyone! ❤️

An absolute belter of an afternoon at Northwich Pina Colada Festival, named after the legendary song by Northwich's own Rupert Holmes, with some fellow Cheshire MPs - one of our real unique local gem annual events! Thank you @andrewcooper.net for inviting us 🍍🍹🥥

Wonderful to visit the Museum of Policing in Cheshire today for their open day 👮‍♀️🚔🚨 The museum is such an incredible local gem and is unique as the only policing museum to be entirely run by volunteers. Their next open days are on the 22 and 29 August from 10am-3pm, it's free, and no need to book!

As the Sizewell C FID was signed off just before Recess, it was great to take the Nuclear APPG to see the works that have started and on a tour of Sizewell B next door. Fun fact: Sizewell B just marked its 30th birthday and generates about 3% of the UK's electricity, powering 2.5m homes a year ⚛️

Some pics from the last few days: delivering newsletters in Burtonwood, meeting Royal Mail about service issues in Birchwood, out with Cllrs and our PCSO in Poulton North, and speaking to residents in Culcheth. For all the latest on my constituency work, visit: www.facebook.com/CharlotteNic...

A gorgeous afternoon pottering about in the sunshine at RHS Garden Wisley with the family for my mum's birthday! 🌸🌺🎂🌞🪻

Thank you to Mayor of Warrington Cllr Mo Hussain for organising today's meeting with Marie and Andy Hilton, and family friend Nathan, who are working to establish a legacy project for families affected by Motor Neurone Disease following the tragic death of their daughter Natalie in 2020.

My latest @warringtonguardian.bsky.social column on the Online Safety Act taking effect, and harnessing the inspirational Lionesses to encourage more young people into sport and activity for their wellbeing. www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/2535140...

It was lovely to join our local police and retired officers, the Museum of Policing in Cheshire, the Mayor, Sarah Hall MP and our community for the unveiling of a new plaque at Warrington Police Station this morning to commemorate officers and staff from Warrington Borough Police (1847-1969) 👮‍♀️

My first UK gig of 2026! A bit different - I’ll be performing 2 x 45 minute sets. Tickets now available via warringtonruncorn.com

A big turnout for the public meeting on the proposed anaerobic digestion (biogas) plant in Winwick tonight. More information on the discussion and how to make your voice heard as a local resident here: www.facebook.com/share/p/16uq...

Alongside meetings and surgeries in my constituency office over the last few days, and a doorstep surgery in Woolston with Cllr Lawrence Sheridan and my team, it was great to join Cllr Janet Seddon for a walkabout in Culcheth this afternoon to chat to residents and local businesses in the area!

20 miles done with Warrington, Halton and St Helens @samaritans.bsky.social today for the tri-borough trek supporting their amazing team - from St Helen's Town Hall, to Runcorn Town Hall and finally ending at Warrington Town Hall! To donate, visit: samaritanscommunity.enthuse.com/pf/whsh-tri-...

Shabbat Shalom 🕊️