Last week in Parliament, we debated the Queen’s Speech. This is written by the Government and sets out their plans for the coming year. Now that the Tories have a big majority, they can win almost every parliamentary vote very easily and that’s exactly what happened...
As I wrote last week, the start of a new year often means taking some big decisions, and the start of this particular new year has brought me – and hundreds of thousands of other Labour Party members – face to face with a particularly important choice. Following the...
An election is coming. We don’t know yet exactly when (at least at time of writing), but it’ll be soon. Before long, you’ll see campaigners and candidates traipsing through the winter rain, snow, wind and hail to ask for your votes. I’m sure you can guess which way I...
A few weeks back at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, something very, very strange happened. Well actually, I’m sure many very, very strange things happened, but I’m thinking of one incident in particular. The Conservative Party Chairman James Cleverly...
Imagine if somebody broke your windows and left you with no option but to board them up as best you could. Then a few years later, they tell you that they will gradually put those windows back in, pretending that it wasn’t them who got rid of them in the first place....
You may well have heard me wax lyrical about the delights of the Tame Valley. For those of you who haven’t experienced it yourselves, it’s a beautiful bit of green space running right through my constituency (and beyond from the moors in Saddleworth down to the Mersey...
