Left: Rishi Sunak says there are 2,000 more GPs than there were in 2019. Right: BBC Reality Check, "there are 823 fewer GPs now than there were in 2019."

On Tuesday I spent £6000 of taxpayers’ money taking a helicopter to visit my mum’s old pharmacy for a photo op…

Here's Philip Dunne discussing a "series of capital raisings" that have to take place for our water system to be fixed. £74 billion in dividends have been paid out since 1989. The Conservatives continue to protect the interests of water companies.

If NWL were truly sorry for sewage dumping at Whitburn they would remove their illegal connection to the stormwater interceptor tunnel which has increased sewage dumps The EA have failed to regulate NWL and tell us to wait 10 years We need a public inquiry #EndSewagePollution

CW: maternal morbidity in childbirth. There is nothing fair about this. RT if you believe it’s BEYOND time for the Government to address racial inequalities in maternal health. 📝 38d.gs/MaternalHealth…

"We're sorry". So sorry in fact that just 2 of the water companies have already announced they are going to pay shareholders £550m over coming weeks. PS. I see that Liv Garfield, salary last year £3.9m is not on the list of CEOs giving up their bonuses. thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…

Dear Feargal Sharkey I'm sitting in a meeting with Ofwat Ofwat Chief Executive and I read out you tweets re his letter. Many thanks. His answer to the q re customers having pd already, is that we are now asking co's to go beyond what they were paid for.

And here's what 32 years of Ofwat not doing its job and making water companies comply with the law looks like.

"In 2022, there were 2986 hours of sewage spills into Salisbury rivers." All of those rivers are chalk streams, all safeguarded using the highest form of international legal protection available as a Special Area of Conservation. That's working then. salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23524000.…

"Shellfish harvested in the UK show worrying levels of E. coli, far above what is deemed safe to eat without treatment." Oysteries in Whitstable have paid huge sums for specialist cleaning equipment. Have Southern Water compensated them for this? 👎 itv.com/news/2023-05-2…

Save Windermere from sewage pollution. Who’s going tomorrow? savewindermere.com/events/communi… #SaveWindermere #EndSewagePollution

🤬4 weeks later EnvAgencyAnglia Incompetence or lack of funding ? The Office for Environmental Protection investigate🙏 “Norfolk’s Forgotten Chalk Stream” Gaywood River Revival FiveRivers Norfolk Rivers Trust Anglian Water Natural England Norfolk and Suffolk Cllr Rob Colwell 🔶Gaywood & West Norfolk 🇺🇦 Michael de Whalley Feargal Sharkey James Wild MP King's Lynn Live

As I was telling Sangita Myska, this is from Wes Streeting’s article yesterday The University of Worcester confirm to LBC “We have not been allocated a single place by HM Government. The longer HM Government delays in funding the places the longer the NHS will be in crisis”

Thank you Windrush WASP for investigating the volume of sewage discharges into our river in 2020 - 86 Olympic swimming pools

Utterly scandalous… And yet these are the actions of our Govt during an NHS crisis and GP exodus:

“Southern Water, Severn Trent, Anglian Water & Yorkshire Water were prosecuted by the Environment Agency & fined a total of just over £94mn in 7 cases” Anglian Water “declined to comment” Watchdog fines just 4 companies despite 300,000 sewage spills Financial Times on.ft.com/43dEV9C

Feargal Sharkey Diseases from swimming in contaminated waters.

"Companies to pay billions in "forever chemical" water pollution settlements." America is to set a PFAS limit of 4 parts per trillion (ppt) in drinking water. In the UK it's 100 ppt and fish in the Thames have been tested at 10,000 ppt. Rachel Salvidge axios.com/2023/06/02/pfa…

"UK water utility Pennon's profit dries up as extreme weather takes toll." "Extreme weather"? Incompetence and greed more like oh and they still felt the need to pay shareholders a £112m dividend. Even more incompetence, even more greed. Reuters reuters.com/business/retai…

My maiden speech to the House of Commons. I’ve had a long time to think about it!