Amazing what can be done if govt gets in the room, talks to and negotiates with working people, rather than obfuscates and hides from them.

Working together.

This is one of the major challenges facing the new Labour Government - Britain’s chronic skills shortage. Growth, house building & improved social mobility & cohesion depend on the Government cracking it.

Well done to all our young people receiving their results today, you should be so proud of the resilience you have shown. If you got the result you were hoping for, congratulations. If you didn't, explore the fantastic options still open to you here 👇 educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/08/12/res…

Congratulations to everyone getting results today. It’s a step on the way to who & where you want to be. Thank you Truro&PenwithCollege for your part in my family’s journey.

Today the Government sets out details of the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme. We have made significant changes to the scheme, listening to the voices of victims, following Sir Robert Francis KC’s report. I pay tribute to all those who have fought so hard on this campaign.

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I said that sorting out childcare would be my number one priority as Education Secretary - it’s key to giving children better life chances. Read about how I’ll be setting out my plans to deliver more childcare places here 👇🏻 thesun.co.uk/news/29936669/…

Absolutely agree with Charlotte Holloway 💚 - Thangam Debbonaire would be a brilliant chair of LWN

I said childcare would be my number one priority as Education Secretary. I meant it. That's why where the Tories made a pledge without a plan, we're delivering. But it hasn't been easy to get to this point and it won't be plain sailing from here either 🧵news.sky.com/story/free-chi…

This Labour government will introduce a comprehensive TB eradication package to end the badger cull and protect farmers livelihoods. news.sky.com/story/governme…

🚨 NEW: We’re scrapping single headline Ofsted judgements with immediate effect. Ofsted judgements have been high stakes for schools, low information for parents. We’ll: ✅ Give parents more transparency ✅ Drive high & rising standards ✅ Pave the way for school report cards

BREAKING: The new Government is cracking down on polluting water bosses. gov.uk/government/new…

BREAKING: The Labour government is cracking down on polluting water bosses.

Other countries are doing it - why don't we? The Local Power Plan is a major part of The Labour Party's plans for Great British Energy - and as Ed Miliband says, it will deliver the biggest expansion in support for community owned energy in history.

At the first Departmental questions for the New Business & Trade Team I set out some of the changes we have already made to ensure that we make work pay and deliver the biggest boost to workers rights in a generation

Very proud to have made my maiden speech in this debate...and to be clipped on #TodayinParliament on BBC Radio 4 . For a politics geek who's listened for years this was like a music geek finally getting on #TOTP! Top of the Pops

That’s me!

Last week’s column for the #Trurovoice