The Daily Mail have, along with a the whole of the right wing political and media elite, have let down our postal service, our postal workers and our communities.

It is little, too late from the Mail.

Privatisation must be reversed.

Once again normal people have been on the end of horrendous policies the Government knew were backfiring.

It shouldn’t take pain and suffering for the Government to act, but it seems that it always does.

Please get in touch if you have been impacted.

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Unite’s research is clear. While key workers strived to save lives, big corporations lined their pockets.

Windfall taxes aren’t enough, we need systemic changes where profits are shared with those that create the wealth - the working class.

Today the Government have decided to play politics with children’s health.

This is farcical.

The Tories are out of ideas and are clinging on to power with no road map to rebuild this country.

This week year 6 are starting their SATs.

I want to wish them all good luck but also remind them that they are more than a score and these tests can never do justice to them and their hard work throughout their education.

With thousands of people infected by contaminated blood & blood products it's likely that every MP will have constituents impacted.

Thanks to Robin Walker, Ian Lavery MP, Wendy Chamberlain MP, Michael Shanks MP, Alex Davies-Jones MP & Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦 for sharing some of their constituents' stories⬇️

#OTD miners from Cramlington overturned the Flying Scotsman to stop strike breaking during the 1926 General Strike.

This is our local history and we should remember the miners’ collective strength. ✊

We need a public inquiry into the police brutality miners faced, not just at Orgreave, but across the country during the Miners’ Strike.

I spoke in the Commons this week to tell the Minister just that. We need more than pardons of miners, we need a public inquiry.

That’s really interesting !!

More than four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy now owned by private landlords - Mirror Online mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Today I lead the debate in the UK House of Commons on Mining and Mining communities.

Our region has been continually left behind by successive governments, and it is high-time they acted to right the wrongs of past and justice is served for our mining communities. 1/2

Yesterday it was announced that TSB were closing Bedlington's branch meaning that the high street is now without any bank at all.

Today I spoke in the House to tell my colleagues that we need cross-party action on to tackle the crisis in high street bank provision.