📢ANNOUNCING⬇️

Joining the lineup for Progressive Britain Conference, Mayor of South Yorkshire Oliver Coppard!

Oliver will be joining our 'Regenerating our environment, regenerating our places: Municipal green growth' panel.🌳🏡

Get your ticket here!
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Last month, after nearly 30 years, we took South Yorkshire’s Supertram back under public control.

Over the first month of public control:

💥 Revenue is up 17%

💥 Fare evasion is down 95%

💥 Our new app has 10,000 registered users

The plan is working.

Labour and Keir Starmer have reaffirmed their commitment to bringing in a Hillsborough Law in full if they are elected to government

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35 years ago today. We’ll always remember the 97 people who went to a football match and never came home, and all the people who had their lives changed so terribly that day.

South Yorkshire has seen a 40% decline in bus mileage in the last decade alone.

That’s why we’re working more quickly than anyone to take our buses back under public control.

Louise Haigh making that process quicker and easier for others is great to see 👏

This, basically

To Muslim friends, family and communities across South Yorkshire, Eid Mubarak!

Abracadabra! ✨ …and we now have a world class venue for children and young people to explore and extend their imaginations, right in the heart of South Yorkshire!

It’s hard to explain how brilliant Grimm & Co is, just go and see it for yourself. Maybe even take your kids :)

Sure Start was life changing.

In South Yorkshire, we’re slowly but surely putting that support back in.

Starting with our Beds for Babies scheme we’re now guaranteeing a safe place to sleep for every child under 5.

But across the country, we simply must do more.

Need to double down on Mayors say Financial Times editorial - England’s promising experiment with metro mayors

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Earlier today, at the brilliant Magtec/Magnetic Systems Technology Limited I launched my Plan for South Yorkshire; a plan to restore the pride, purpose and prosperity of South Yorkshire over the next four years and beyond.

You can check out that Plan here: shorturl.at/mnHIZ

The message from Yorkshire could not be clearer:

Put passengers first and reverse the decline on our public transport the Tories have presided over.

A lovely day for a spot of #LabourDoorstep action in Tankerlsey with the brilliant ⁦Dr Marie Tidball⁩ and ⁦Alexander Burnett⁩ 🌞🌹

“By the most optimistic estimates there’s no way they’re going to have new nuclear coming on stream until about 2021-2022, so it’s not an answer.”