The private speculators will not resolve the housing crisis by being given the green light to make even more money than they have. Social rent homes are the key, council housing in particular. Give councils the funding to build council homes.

‘186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza’ #Divest #CeasefireNow #StopArmingIsrael thelancet.com/journals/lance…

The Israeli military is using British-made weapons in its horrifying assault on Gaza. Our new government must end this complicity and uphold the rights of the Palestinian people. That's why next week I will table an amendment to the King's Speech to ban arms sales to Israel.

Muazzam Abayat has just come out of an Israeli jail. Humiliated, starved and beaten this once supremely fit man has lost more than half his body weight in less than nine months. Lubna Masarwa and I talked to him beside his hospital bed in Bethlehem: middleeasteye.net/news/palestine…

The supposed law of supply and demand certainly doesn't apply when the market is dominated by an oligopoly, as is house building.

We saw this elsewhere last week when Wes Streeting promised to “end the begging bowl culture” between the NHS and the Treasury. It is a kind of performative frugality, in which spending to fix the country’s many ills is portrayed as childish and ignoring them the act of grownups.

The two-child benefit cap must go. It forces children into poverty and disproportionately affects single parent and ethnic minority families. largerfamilies.study/publications/n…

Lost count of the many tenants I have supported who are fighting succession cases, often being investigated by ‘fraud teams’ and facing eviction at a vulnerable time, when they are grieving family members. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Good start, hope this is passed quickly. Also hope councils will be getting some more money to help them utilise any additional powers. Now we need a commitment to fund council housing and ban right to buy, so tenants are not forced to rely on the PRS and tax payers can save ££

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I voted against the two-child benefit cap which has contributed to rising and deepening levels of child poverty and food insecurity for many East End families. I have now been informed that I have had the whip withdrawn.

I just signed a petition, "Keir Starmer - Reverse the Suspension of the 7 MPs." Sign here & pass it on! actionnetwork.org/petitions/keir…

Instead of scapegoating minorities and emboldening the far-right, politicians need to offer real solutions to the injustices that blight our society.

"We beat the far-right and the race riots by finally tackling a quadruple of evils: racism (especially Islamophobia), the demonisation of immigrants, poverty and inequality". Me on Good Morning Britain this morning.

Up and down the country, thousands of people came out in their communities to join anti-racist gatherings. This is who we are. Compassion, community, care ❤️👏 1/2

So pleased to have been part of the anti-fascist collective at the Finsbury Park Mosque day of solidarity. The community standing together against Islamophobia and hatred was a beautiful sight to behold

10 years of above inflation rent increases will hit the working poor. It will raise a paltry sum and will drive up the HB bill. We need to press the government to commit to end the Tory policy of CPI+1%, and commit to no above inflation increases. ft.com/content/e2546c…

People must come before profit 💚 I hope our new Government uses its power to make the changes recommended and finally protect tenants..

As children here start a new term, Palestinian children are attacked in their school. #CeasefireNOW #IsraeliApartheid