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🌹MP for Hodge Hill & Solihull North | Chair, House of Commons Business & Trade Committee | New book! Why Populists Are Winning: https://t.co/lY3bE0HgFQ

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Shocking reports from Azad Kashmir of live fire being used against peaceful protesters are deeply alarming. Violence against people exercising their democratic rights has no place in any society. Every effort must now be made to prevent any further escalation, protect civilian life and bring an immediate end to the bloodshed. Now is the moment for restraint, not retaliation; for dialogue, not violence. Britain and the international community should use every diplomatic channel available to help restore calm and support a peaceful resolution.

Shocking reports from Azad Kashmir of live fire being used against peaceful protesters are deeply alarming. Violence against people exercising their democratic rights has no place in any society. Every effort must now be made to prevent any further escalation, protect civilian life and bring an immediate end to the bloodshed. Now is the moment for restraint, not retaliation; for dialogue, not violence. Britain and the international community should use every diplomatic channel available to help restore calm and support a peaceful resolution.

13,821 views • 10 days ago

Great speech today from Andy Burnham. But how could devo-max work in practice? Last year I asked Andy Burnham to spell it out in Parliament - where he trailed the idea of local control of labour market policy for the under-25s. That became part of a series of recommendations we made. The theory is simple. The UK is running an output gap - but that varies regionally. So, we need far more devolution of labour market policy and investment to help ensure very part of Britain is firing on all cylinders. Combine that with a ‘total place’ approach to pooled regional budgets to help transform the local state. Our key advice: 1.Skills as the proving ground. Post-16 technical education should be devolved to leaders who can commission it against the real strengths of their economy. Andy Burnham has made this case for years. The evidence backs him. 2.Devolved growth needs devolved capital. We called for British Business Bank branches in every mayoral region and a real pipeline of investable propositions. A region with its own growth plan needs a visible route to the money that funds it. 3. That should be part of a rebuild of regional banking. Bring together British Business Bank and Post Office banking hubs to put small business banking on the high street. Radically expand state-backed lending guarantees. Back it up with Community Reinvestment Act to get major banks to lean in. 4.A place-based delivery spine. Mayors should sit inside the national strategy machinery, not next to it. One table, one set of numbers, national and regional leadership together. 5. Shift the capability. Mayors told us their single biggest constraint is in-house capacity. We recommended a secondment pool from the Treasury, the Department for Business and Trade and the British Business Bank, placed directly into mayoral authorities. The argument for devolution has been won. The work now is to make it deliver.

Great speech today from Andy Burnham. But how could devo-max work in practice? Last year I asked Andy Burnham to spell it out in Parliament - where he trailed the idea of local control of labour market policy for the under-25s. That became part of a series of recommendations we made. The theory is simple. The UK is running an output gap - but that varies regionally. So, we need far more devolution of labour market policy and investment to help ensure very part of Britain is firing on all cylinders. Combine that with a ‘total place’ approach to pooled regional budgets to help transform the local state. Our key advice: 1.Skills as the proving ground. Post-16 technical education should be devolved to leaders who can commission it against the real strengths of their economy. Andy Burnham has made this case for years. The evidence backs him. 2.Devolved growth needs devolved capital. We called for British Business Bank branches in every mayoral region and a real pipeline of investable propositions. A region with its own growth plan needs a visible route to the money that funds it. 3. That should be part of a rebuild of regional banking. Bring together British Business Bank and Post Office banking hubs to put small business banking on the high street. Radically expand state-backed lending guarantees. Back it up with Community Reinvestment Act to get major banks to lean in. 4.A place-based delivery spine. Mayors should sit inside the national strategy machinery, not next to it. One table, one set of numbers, national and regional leadership together. 5. Shift the capability. Mayors told us their single biggest constraint is in-house capacity. We recommended a secondment pool from the Treasury, the Department for Business and Trade and the British Business Bank, placed directly into mayoral authorities. The argument for devolution has been won. The work now is to make it deliver.

44,041 views • 1 month ago

£3.5m profit a day globally. £1m a day from British taxpayers. A £1.8bn bill to fix a historic injustice. Fujitsu admits culpability in the Post Office Horizon scandal but won’t say how much it will pay. No figure. No provision. Just fine words about being “ethical”. Ethics aren’t slogans. They’re what you put in the accounts. Watch today's Business and Trade Committee session with Fujitsu, ministers, Post Office leaders - and #Horizon victims as we pursue our campaign for justice

£3.5m profit a day globally. £1m a day from British taxpayers. A £1.8bn bill to fix a historic injustice. Fujitsu admits culpability in the Post Office Horizon scandal but won’t say how much it will pay. No figure. No provision. Just fine words about being “ethical”. Ethics aren’t slogans. They’re what you put in the accounts. Watch today's Business and Trade Committee session with Fujitsu, ministers, Post Office leaders - and #Horizon victims as we pursue our campaign for justice

60,181 views • 7 months ago

In case you missed it... Great conversation with Andrew Marr at LBC last week, on the dark money network funding populist politicians. £173 million. Five years. Four donors, two based offshore. This is the dark money buying British politics, pouring cash into media companies, think tanks, and populist parties. The public has a right to know who is bankrolling our democracy, and the Rycroft Review is a serious step towards reining it in. Why Populists Are Winning - and How to Beat Them, is out now. Get your copy here:

In case you missed it... Great conversation with Andrew Marr at LBC last week, on the dark money network funding populist politicians. £173 million. Five years. Four donors, two based offshore. This is the dark money buying British politics, pouring cash into media companies, think tanks, and populist parties. The public has a right to know who is bankrolling our democracy, and the Rycroft Review is a serious step towards reining it in. Why Populists Are Winning - and How to Beat Them, is out now. Get your copy here:

34,320 views • 4 months ago

Ten years on, I’m not sure people voted for what Brexit has delivered. The value of new trade deals? Around £14bn a year. The cost of Brexit to the economy? Closer to £180bn a year. In committee today, we confronted the gap between promise and reality — and why fixing Brexit now matters. With thanks to Paul Nowak from Trades Union Congress and all our witnesses for laying bare the challenge.

Ten years on, I’m not sure people voted for what Brexit has delivered. The value of new trade deals? Around £14bn a year. The cost of Brexit to the economy? Closer to £180bn a year. In committee today, we confronted the gap between promise and reality — and why fixing Brexit now matters. With thanks to Paul Nowak from Trades Union Congress and all our witnesses for laying bare the challenge.

37,751 views • 6 months ago

I asked the incoming Chair of Ofcom what he would do to help understand the role of dark money in media organisations. Listen to what he had to say. Taken aback? I was.

I asked the incoming Chair of Ofcom what he would do to help understand the role of dark money in media organisations. Listen to what he had to say. Taken aback? I was.

14,866 views • 2 months ago

Is populism a genuine movement or just an enormous hustle run by people in it for their own reasons? That question got the biggest response of the day at a packed Global Stage session at Hay, where Anna Foster from BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and I were delighted to be joined by well over 1000 of you! More on the data over on Substack:

Is populism a genuine movement or just an enormous hustle run by people in it for their own reasons? That question got the biggest response of the day at a packed Global Stage session at Hay, where Anna Foster from BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and I were delighted to be joined by well over 1000 of you! More on the data over on Substack:

12,332 views • 2 months ago

Cocaine and cannabis sold openly in high street mini marts. Prescription drugs handed over without question. And when the BBC went back to confront the dealers, Pitbull dogs blocked the door. This is organised crime operating in plain sight, and it needs zero tolerance, new enforcement powers, and action now. Great work by the BBC's Ed Thomas and team. Watch here:

Cocaine and cannabis sold openly in high street mini marts. Prescription drugs handed over without question. And when the BBC went back to confront the dealers, Pitbull dogs blocked the door. This is organised crime operating in plain sight, and it needs zero tolerance, new enforcement powers, and action now. Great work by the BBC's Ed Thomas and team. Watch here:

16,309 views • 3 months ago

Did you catch the first episode of the mini-series on populism with ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on 'The Rest is Politics' where we discussed why populism is winning? The second episode where we looked at how we beat populism dropped this morning! Listen here:

Did you catch the first episode of the mini-series on populism with ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on 'The Rest is Politics' where we discussed why populism is winning? The second episode where we looked at how we beat populism dropped this morning! Listen here:

16,496 views • 3 months ago

“A company the country cannot trust should not control an asset the country cannot do without.” My speech in todays debate on #SavingBritishSteel

“A company the country cannot trust should not control an asset the country cannot do without.” My speech in todays debate on #SavingBritishSteel

46,473 views • 1 year ago

Today Royal Mail's new owner Daniel Křetínský appeared before Parliament for the first time. I asked if he was willing to apologise for Royal Mail's failures. Watch to hear his response:

Today Royal Mail's new owner Daniel Křetínský appeared before Parliament for the first time. I asked if he was willing to apologise for Royal Mail's failures. Watch to hear his response:

11,640 views • 4 months ago

🌹Our @uklabour manifesto promised a new age of wealth-creation 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️But how do we deliver - not just for a lucky few - but for ALL? 📖 My new book sets out the five big ways to fairly share the future! ➡️

🌹Our @uklabour manifesto promised a new age of wealth-creation 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️But how do we deliver - not just for a lucky few - but for ALL? 📖 My new book sets out the five big ways to fairly share the future! ➡️

22,611 views • 2 years ago

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