2023

The All Party Parliament Group on Portugal met the President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, Augusto Santos Silva on Wednesday, 12 July 2023. Other members of the delegation were  His Excellency Nuno Brito Portuguese Ambassador to the UK; Sérgio Sousa Pinto MP President of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, and President of

On Tuesday 11 July 2023  there were 18 votes in the Commons on the amendments passed by the Lords which returned for the Commons to debate. It tokk over 5 hours to vote on the ammendments. The Government disagreed with every amendment and/or made amendments in lieu of those made by the House of Lords.

On Friday 7 July 2023 I visited Delves Junior School and spoke to the school about my work as their Member of parliament. I explained how we have to bob when we want to catch Mr Speaker’s eye during question time. At that point, everyone jumped up and bobbed. There are many ways we can

I met the FAB Michael Rosen at the Great School Library drop in hosted by Margaret Greenwood, MP for Wirral West.   Michael is a well known author of books for children such as Chocolate Cake, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt; Sad Book; Little Rabbit Foo Foo; No breathing in Class.  Michael was there to

The Institute of Physics held a  drop in at parliament on Wednesday 5 July 2023 to highlight their campaign for a manifesto  for change  the ‘Limit Less’ campaign and how it supports young people from underrepresented groups to enjoy physics.  I spoke to teachers and students about their experiences of diversity and inclusion in their