This Guardian asked me for my views on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. This is what I said: “I don’t think people have made the connection about Brexit. What we, the Labour government, are doing with Brexit is using it in such a poor way” “We’ve already seen it with…

I recently met with the Norwich branch of National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO). They told me about how their members feel undervalued and overworked, and how recent changes in sentencing and the easing of the prison crisis has exacerbated this. Probation staff feel ‘unseen’ by the public and politicians.…

I hosted a roundtable with Equal Lives, Bridge Plus, MAP (the Mancroft Advice Project), and the Norfolk Community Advice Network (NCAN) to understand their views about the government’s proposed changes to welfare benefits. Their message to me was clear, that the changes would have devastating consequences for the people they…

As someone who lives and works in Norwich, I find it impossible to separate our present from the long shadows of our past. Whether in the winding medieval streets or the stories we tell, history is not something we simply remember here, it is something we live. That is why…

Today I joined the Red Line for Palestine protest. We created a human red line around the UK Parliament building, to protest our government’s ongoing complicity with the atrocities in Palestine.

In Parliament this week, MPs debated the dire state of Thames Water. I spoke in the debate. This was what I had to say: “Let us be clear that the collapse of KKR’s rescue deal is not a blip; it is a reckoning—a moment that exposes the complete bankruptcy of the…

I have sponsored a parliamentary motion (Early Day Motion 1339), raising concern with the systemic failings of the water industry and its regulators, and calling on the Government to reform Ofwat so that regulatory decisions are based on actual data, introduce a robust clawback mechanism to prevent unjustified charges, and…

I have written to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, asking for the consultation on changes to the Code of Practice to be extended to a minimum of 12 weeks. The Code of Practice is being changed in response to the Supreme Court’s judgement of 16th April…

I have written to the Prime Minister regarding the unfolding catastrophe in Gaza. Its scale, its cruelty, its deliberate, systemic destruction – is no longer simply a humanitarian crisis. It is a political and moral reckoning. Homes, hospitals, children’s bodies buried in rubble: this is not collateral damage. This is…

I visited the Ovarian Cancer Support Group, run by Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. The group offers a dedicated space for people affected by ovarian cancer — including patients, partners, friends, and relatives — to connect, share experiences, and support one another. The group was formed because there was a…