⏰ 3 days to go! ⏰

On Thursday, voters in Norwich will get the opportunity to elect their next City Councillor - as well as Norfolk's next Police and Crime Commissioner.

We've been talking to residents across the city about the election and other local issues on their mind.

I attended a hustings organised by City College Norwich, where students put questions to the Norwich South and Norwich North election candidates.

I had the chance to answer questions about democracy and parliament.

Thanks to City College Norwich for hosting the event.

Genuinely bizarre interview this morning on BBC 5Live 🤨
I was told the polls are ambiguous…??
And when I explained how detention & deportations impact vulnerable people the presenter insisted we have “no idea” if that will happen as part of the Rwanda plan? I’m confused.

Now he’s defected - I’ll be asking Dr Daniel Poulter MP to join myself, NorfolkSuffolkCrisis, patients & fellow Labour candidates across Norfolk & Suffolk to demand a full & independent public inquiry into our failed mental health services.

This is a great read Anthony Barnett

I’d heard of David Marquand, but never in this detail or light.

newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/04/…

A brutal election stunt that will cause consternation & fear amongst many asylum seekers & their families, who came here desperate to find safety & security. Shameful.
“Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation” theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

If this is true, this is bad news. Support Sangita Myska . I’m indebted to her support over the Trevelyans apology and am grateful to be asked onto her show twice to talk about it. LBC Clive Lewis MP

Whilst our public services crumble, Rishi Sunak pays a 23% tax rate on his £2,200,000 income.

If we tax wealth, we could pay for the high-quality public services we need.

“Our problems in this country are not arriving on a beach in Kent from France.
They’re arriving because of the oligarchs and the billionaires that run our society.”

My rebuttal of the idea that privatisation boosted rail usage

Here's the truth: trickle-down economics has never worked.

I'll be in 'the big easy' later this month, taking part in this. I think it will be very interesting. If anyone I know is anywhere nearby - come along!

Cracking news Louise Haigh!

Now let’s get cracking with water….

Cracking news Louise Haigh!

Now let’s get cracking with water….

This is the cold, logical progression of the cruel rhetoric against desperate people.

Rest assured it won’t end here and it won’t end with those seeking asylum.

These measures will not deter those risking their lives, and the Bibby Stockholm barge is one example of that failure.

“The barge has become a byword for secrecy, incompetence and this government’s cruelty,” Clive Lewis MP buff.ly/3VF0zmg

.Mark Perryman making some excellent observations on the need for constitutional consistency & reform.

“It is the classic yet crucial slippage, England being used to represent not itself but three other nations, Scotland, Wales and the North of Ireland too”

Happy #StGeorgesDay

The Rwanda Bill is a smokescreen.

The Tories won't stop at deporting refugees.

Here's why.