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…

Along with our Walk-in Centre, the Vulnerable Adults Service (VAS) in Norwich was under threat until the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) relented and announced that there would be no changes to the Centre or the VAS, which supports some of our community’s most vulnerable individuals. In addition…

Thousands of people signed Norwich Labour’s door-to-door petition to save the Centre, and many hundreds said no to it in the official consultation. So the city will breathe a huge sigh of relief today.  Leaders at the N&N said the hospital would struggle if the Centre shut, and out-of-hours GP…