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On 12 February 2025  as Co Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing, I opened the proceedings and you can read my full speech below: So lets go straight to the winners announced by Matt Chorley: The three categories are: Best Fiction or Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian: The winner is  Alan Johnson for

An excellent recital was held at No 11 Downing Street on Thursday 13 February 2025 by kind permission of the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP the Chancellor.  The setting was one of the rooms at No 11 where we heard from Soprano Natalya Romaniw, violinists, David Adams Kitty Cheung, Viola players Dunia Ershova and Barry

On 10 February 2025 the House of Commons debated the 2nd Reading of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. The Border Security and Asylum Minister, Dame Angela Eagle DBE highlighted in November that, during the first half of 2024, small boat crossings reached their highest point on record, with over 200,000 cases stuck in

On 5 February 2025 I and 66 other MPs and Lords, co-signed a letter by Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP to David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary. The letter condemned President Trump’s comments on 4 February 2025, announcing plans to take over Gaza, forcibly resettling the Gazan population in the process. In the wake of the establishment

I attended a meeting with Paddy Lillis General Secretary organised by the Usdaw union and at the meeting were retail staff who work on the front line in major retailers. We heard their stories and then discussed the new rights set out in the Employment Rights Bill. Sometimes children are stealing from shops.   The Prime