I was delighted to meet with Chinese for Labour in Liverpool on Sunday 23 September 2018. I support the thriving Chinese community in Walsall South. 30.7% of Walsall South is of Asian ethnicity. 

I am pleased that the planning application to move the statue of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst from outside Parliament to Regent’s University has been withdrawn. Out of the 236 comments on the plan, 232 objected to it.

I raised with the Leader of the House, the impact that a no deal Brexit will have on the UK. The National Farmers Union said that a no deal Brexit would be an “Armageddon scenario”, the Government’s own technical notes state that UK institutions would no longer be eligible for three Horizon 2020 funding lines and a no deal will cost the UK research £520 million a year, and the National Police Coordination Centre warns that the “necessity to call on military assistance is a real possibility” after we leave the EU with no deal.

I spoke at the launch of the New Brooms book in Parliament on Wednesday 12 September 2018. Mr Speaker and James Frith MP, who edited the book, also spoke at the event.