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The Real Cost of Student Finance for the Government

Today I held the Government to account for their creative accounting that has hidden the real cost of the student loans system from the Government Accounts – a system that is failing students, taxpayers and even the Government. The Office for Budgetary Responsibility estimates that £12 billion will be added…

Wes Tackles Prime Minister on EU Deal

The Prime Minister is meeting European Union leaders today to try and secure further concessions. She is doomed to fail. What she’s agreed is a deal that will: – Leave us subject to EU rules, but with no say over them – Leave us unable to have an independent trade…

Annual Report 2018

Clore Tikva Choir in Parliament

I was so proud to welcome pupils from Clore Tikva into Parliament this afternoon for the Board of Deputies’ annual #Chanukah reception. The choir sang beautifully to a packed audience, which included Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner and Rabbi Danny Rich, as well as MPs and Peers from across the…

Happy Chanukah

חַג שָׂמֵחַ I’d like to wish all my Jewish friends and my constituents, as well as Jews !around the world, a very Happy Chanukah I will be celebrating this week with the Board of Deputies at their Chanukah reception in Parliament tomorrow and with the Menorah lighting at Gants Hill…

Supporting our Taxi industry

Since my election just over three years ago, I’ve put reform of the taxi and private hire industry on the agenda of Parliament and the Government. Today, members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Taxis, which I founded and chair, have written to the Transport Minister urging her to act…

Questioning the Defence Secretary

Yesterday I challenged the Defence Secretary over the £10 billion real terms cuts to the defence budget. Rather than respond with the seriousness needed, and that our forces deserve, I instead got a poor answer from a Defence Secretary I can only assume didn’t brush up on his numbers. You…

Defining Islamophobia

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims will be presenting the findings of its latest inquiry in Parliament on 27th November 2018. The 6-month inquiry is the most extensive piece of work done in collaboration with parliamentarians, academics, legal experts, Muslim organisations and British Muslim communities looking into the realities…

Statement on IMPRESS adjudication on complaint against The Skwawkbox

Today, IMPRESS, the independent press regulator, published its adjudication on a complaint made by Ilford North MP Wes Streeting against The Skwawkbox blog concerning a blog published on that site earlier this year. The full adjudication can be read here: www.impress.press/downloads/file/impress-wes-streeting-and-the-skwawkbox-final-complaint-adjudication.pdf IMPRESS concluded that: ‘The Publisher’s allegations meant that the…

Challenging the Prime Minister

Today we were called into Parliament for a statement from the Prime Minister. I told the PM what Ilford North residents have been saying to me by email: – People who voted Leave oppose the PM’s deal because it fails to deliver the kind of sovereignty they were promised, leaving…

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