Do you feel like your area doesn't get it's fair share of jobs and investment? Sinéad McLaughlin is bringing a bill which seeks to redress the balance caused by decades of underinvestment in areas around the North. Read more here: sdlp.ie/balancing_act

Proud to walk with Equity Northern Ireland General Branch & other unions on the Belfast May Day march today

🚶‍♀️Pedestrianising Hill Street would cost just £5,000. A modest investment with massive benefits. It would create safer streets, support local businesses and make Belfast city centre a better place to visit and live! While the Executive dithers, communities are left waiting.

It's clear global politics is at a significant turning point. We can either choose an open, outward looking future, or one which is increasingly closed minded. We firmly believe our future belongs in a new Ireland in Europe.

"We must not allow Derry's creative future to be dismantled piece by piece." While Equity members were rallying outside the Department for Communities' Derry offices yesterday, Sinéad McLaughlin MLA MLA supported our message in the Northern Ireland Assembly: save the arts!

Very grateful to local PSNI neighbourhood team for speaking at our well attended community meeting in Stranmillis tonight, organised by your local South Belfast SDLP team. We’re working together to tackle burglaries & help people feel safer at home

"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs? There are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 times as many white grooming gang suspects?" emily m asks ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe MP why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.

Scrapping the two-child limit and benefit cap should be a priority in tackling child poverty. This could lift 500,000 children out of poverty, and is by far the most effectively targeted route. Read more➡️buff.ly/4biQa5z

This week, the SDLP Opposition are bringing a motion to the NI Assembly with a clear message: As Britain’s politics shift further to the right, our best future is back in Europe and the only real path there is through a New Ireland.

A round up of my work in May. Working on local issues across South Belfast & Mid Down as well as politically on issues including economic development, violence against women & girls, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as well as the past (legacy) and the future (a new Ireland).

🚨2015 70% favoured UK & 15% UI 🚨2022 it was 50% - 30% 🚨In today’s NILT poll it is 42% - 36% 🚨We have appealed to Irish Govt for the past 7 years to comprehend the extent & pace of change currently taking place in the north 🚨A border poll needs planned for immediately

Would you vote to unify with the Republic if a vote was held tomorrow? (Excluding unsure/would not vote) 18-24: Yes 62% No 38% 25-34: Yes 47% No 53% 35-44: Yes 51% No 49% 45-54: Yes 40% No 60% 55-64: Yes 45% No 55% 65+: Yes 36% No 64% NI Life & Times Survey 2025

A food bank founder, a community campaigner and a voice for those too often left behind. This year, Paul Doherty will use his platform as Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast to fight poverty, lift up unheard voices and celebrate everything that makes Belfast great.

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

EXCL: Sadiq Khan becomes most senior Labour figure yet to urge government to drop controversial disability benefit changes, supporting growing Labour rebellion that threatens to derail the plans. The London mayor warns the welfare bill - which more than 100 Labour MPs have

📢Some news from me: I've written a book with the erudite & eloquent Fintan O'Toole in which we each argue for - and then against - Irish unity, setting out objectively what seem to us each side's best arguments, and the issues people across the island of Ireland should consider.

Making Britain fairer for you.

A year and a day as MP for South Belfast and Mid Down. Grateful every day for the privilege and chance to serve.

75% of Britons say they would support a wealth tax proposed by former Labour leader Lord Kinnock of 2% on wealth over £10 million Support: 75% Oppose: 13%

We are delighted to announce that we will be running a new policy leadership development programme for young people aged 18-25 this autumn. Find out more here: pivotalpolicy.org/our-work/news-…