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Scrapping of Universal Credit uplift

I know that lots of people are having a really hard time at the moment because of the impact of covid-19 on livelihoods. This is affecting a lot of people locally and I’ve been doing my best to help people who’ve been in touch about their own situations. Today I…

Questions to the Home Secretary

More than 400,000 police records have been lost, compromising police investigations and making it harder to bring criminals to justice. I’ve raised this as an urgent matter with the Home Secretary demanding information of the full impact on Ilford North and vitally how we can fix this very serious problem.…

UK-EU Trade Deal vote

I’m in Parliament today and I voted for the UK-EU trade deal, which has just passed the Commons. Unlike so many other Brexit-related votes we’ve had in recent years, I haven’t agonised about this and do not feel conflicted about it. I want to explain why. We’ve left the European…

Question Time Debut

Last Thursday 10th December, I made my BBC Question Time debut with a virtual audience from Chelmsford. We discussed a range of topics, including racism in football after Millwall fans booed their players for taking a knee at the start of their match against Derby. My response to the issue…

We need to learn pandemic lessons to avoid failing pupils in 2021 – Sunday People, December 2020

More than a million children have been missing school in recent weeks – numbers unprecedented in peacetime. This risks permanently damaging children’s education and development. Differences in attendance also risk creating a terrible new North-South divide, with entire communities of children simply being left behind. Exams regulator Ofqual has warned…

Education Questions

Last summer’s exam results were a total shambles that could have been avoided. For exams to go ahead fairly and successfully, we need a plan NOW. Parents, pupils, teachers and school leaders are crying out for clarity and certainty. MP after MP raised this at Education Questions today. Listen to…

From free school meals to shadow schools minister – Guardian interview, November 2020

Today the Guardian published my first interview as Shadow Schools Minister. I want every pupil to be able to attend a great local school and want to see the gap closed between those from the most and least disadvantaged backgrounds. This interview explains why this matters so much to me…

Remembrance Sunday 2020

Today was a Remembrance Sunday like no other. The civic service of remembrance was filmed weeks ago and is available to view here. This morning I went along to the Ilford War Memorial to lay my wreath on behalf of Ilford North residents and found that members of the Royal…

Shadow Minister for Schools and Marcus Rashford

I’m absolutely delighted that The Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer has asked me to serve as Labour’s Shadow Minister for Schools. Education is my number one passion. It changed my life. Having grown up on a council estate and experiencing child poverty in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be where I am today without…

Paying a heavy price for government failure – Ilford Recorder, October 2020

The ongoing failure to run a proper test, track and isolate system has left our country with one of the worst excess death rates in Europe and facing one of the worst economic downturns of any of the world’s advanced economies. With rising cases, lives and livelihoods are at stake.…

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