This is an important step-I pay tribute to victims & those who’ve fought so hard for justice, esp Diana Johnson DBE MP 🇬🇧🇺🇦🌈.

The Labour Party & LabourLordsUK are proud to have helped secured a change to the law to speed up compensation.

The government must now set up the body & start payments.

As Rishi Sunak’s hero Nigel Lawson warned the cost of National Insurance abolition would be paid by Britain’s pensioners.

Today Rishi Sunak must rule out cuts to the state pension to pay for his £46 billion unfunded bombshell.

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

✍️ Our Chair Meg Hillier MP has written for the Financial Times following the publication of her annual report laying out future spending problems for Government

You can read the report here 👉 publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse…

Waste, mismanagement and ‘big nasties’ blight UK public spending on.ft.com/44nZ8Lh | opinion

🚨 The deadline to submit evidence for our inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence in government is approaching

💻 Head to our website to find out more: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…

✍️ Submit your evidence before Friday 3 May

No one should have to wait years for mental health support. 

My Labour government will give people the support they need by recruiting thousands of mental health staff and putting support into schools and communities right across the country.

news.sky.com/story/sir-keir…

Use your voice this Thursday to send Rishi Sunak and the Tories a message - the change we need starts now.

See below for my weekly round-up of what I've been up to in Hackney and Westminster.

Thousands of vulnerable people are at risk of ending up without welfare payments, MPs warn

bbc.in/4dcgf6Z

We have got to build more social housing in this country.

📄 We've published our report into progress in implementing Universal Credit

Scroll to read some of our conclusions ⬇️

The truth is, Rishi Sunak is leaving you worse off than ever.

Our future depends on protecting the natural world.

But the Conservatives are destroying it.

Labour will conserve nature and help it recover. This commitment will run through Labour’s five missions to transform Britain.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📗 New report: Progress in implementing Universal Credit

🗣 Department for Work and Pensions should explain how it will ensure it's providing the right level of support to people moving to Universal Credit, including face-to-face and through “Help to Claim”

Read the report ⬇️
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse…

🚨We’ve published a new report: Progress in implementing Universal Credit

📢 We are not convinced that Universal Credit is achieving the scale of expected economic benefits

Read more ⬇️
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse…

Retailers, unions & Labour all warned Govt about soaring shoplifting & organised crime. Yet they failed to act. 

Shoplifting is up 37% to record high

Labour will put 13,000 more neighbourhood police & PCSOs on beat, end the £200 rule & strengthen law to keep town centres safe

Shocking Tory failure on law & order in new figures out today

▪️37% increase in shoplifting to record high
▪️7% increase in knife crime - now up 81% in 8yrs
▪️13% increase in robbery
▪️90% of crimes go unsolved

Under the Tories, more criminals get off, more victims let down.

Judge ministers by what they do, not what they say.

The Tories have:
❌ Never matched Labour defence spending levels
❌ Cut the Army to the smallest size since Napoleon
❌ Missed their own recruitment targets every year
❌ Wasted over £15bn in bad procurement

After 14 years of Tory hollowing out of our Armed Forces, Labour will defend Britain better. We will:

✅Reinforce homeland protections
✅Fulfill NATO obligations in full
✅Make allies our strategic strength
✅Direct British defence investment first to British jobs and business