I'm enormously grateful to Natalie Bennett for organising this letter to the Home Secretary, calling on the government to allow displaced Palestinians to unite with their families in Britain and for the establishment of a "Homes for Palestinians" scheme.

Diane Abbott was trying to be called throughout #PMQs while others spoke about her. Lindsay Hoyle fails to call her. Wonder if more MPs will join the 95 saying 'no confidence' in the Speaker? edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

More than ninety years on from the Kinder Scout mass trespass - a key moment in the fight for the right to public access of the countryside - and 92% of land in England is still off limits to the public. Yesterday, I called on the government to enshrine a #RightToRoam in law.

For years, I've been supporting efforts to deliver a new market that meets the needs of Birkenhead, its people, and local traders. The council officers' latest proposals would be an absolute disaster. It's time to pull back and have a major rethink. zurl.co/H7Rm

Vote for Emily Spurrell 2nd May - a proactive and accessible PCC always willing to listen and work together to find solutions.

This is absolutely wonderful news. Birkenhead owes a massive debt of gratitude to SavingRonsPlace and Martin Wallace for all of their hard work in helping to protect this site. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

I'm delighted that Trades Union Congress has today published its draft bill regulating the use of #AI in the workplace, building on the work of its AI taskforce. Thanks in particular to Mary Towers without whom this would never have happened. Next step - making it law!

Natalie Elphicke’s values are not the values of the labour movement. It’s outrageous that she should be allowed to join the Labour benches while principled socialists like Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn still haven’t had the whip restored.

The government must be held to account over its refusal to suspend arms exports to Israel. I've tabled an EDM calling on David Cameron to take questions from MPs from the bar of the House of Commons. We need far more robust scrutiny over this government's foreign policy.

I stand in full solidarity with Diane Abbott. The party’s treatment of her is an insult to a political pioneer, the first black woman MP, and a loyal servant of both the Labour Party and the people of Hackney. She must be allowed to stand in Hackney North if she wants to.

“Honestly I’m so shocked right now, to be treated this badly” Faiza Shaheen, who was set to stand for Labour, describes hearing that her candidacy had been pulled over liking a series of Tweets which she claims Labour said would frustrate its campaign #Newsnight

Suspending candidates for liking tweets is surreal. It’s not even sanctioning speech, but basically sanctioning a click and the implicit opinion behind it. Quite close to Orwell’s Thought Police. Also, I don’t know of any other political organisation in the West that does this.

Today is the last day of the debate on the King’s Speech & there will be a series of votes. I will vote today in support of the amendment calling for the scrapping of the iniquitous 2 child limit on benefits, which has caused such hardship. I explain why in this short video.

If the Labour Party has a moral mission, it must be to eradicate child poverty. I join the 11 unions affiliated to the Labour Party & the TUC, which represents six million workers, in calling for the two-child benefit cap to be immediately scrapped. I will vote for it today.

In East London, we have some of the highest rates of child poverty in the UK. I will be voting to scrap the two child benefit cap today. x.com/ApsanaBegumMP/…

Figures from Child Poverty Action Group show that 43% of children in Liverpool West Derby live in poverty. Experts say that the best way to immediately impact this is to scrap the two-child cap. This is why this evening I voted for the #KingsSpeech amendment to scrap the cap. #RightToFood

As an MP in Salford, where 44.7% of children live in poverty with some wards closer to 60%, I urged the Government in the King's Speech debate to scrap the two-child limit on Universal Credit. Read my statement in full 👇

Hundreds of locals have turned out tonight to protect Asylum Link in Liverpool. We will protect our streets from the scourge of fascism!

The spirit of Cable Street has been manifested across our country tonight. All over England people from different creeds and communities have come together to send a message to the racists: No Pasaran!

Are politicians now going to listen to, and act on, the legitimate concerns of the anti-racists who took the streets?