Transition from Education to Employment: Beyond the Classroom Thursday, 22 October, 2026 This morning, I hosted the first Transition from Education to Employment: Beyond the Classroom event in the Houses of Parliament, bringing together Year 11, 12 and 13 students from schools across Chingford and Woodford Green. The event was to give students a clear understanding of the opportunities available to them after school, including further education, apprenticeships, skills and training... Local News
The Labour Council are not listening 18th January 2025 The Labour Council are not listening. The Labour Council’s official parking consultation results have been released and an overwhelming majority have rejected... Local News
Why Putin and Iran are the two huge losers in Syria - but UK must watch out too 9th December 2024 The speed of the takeover has taken everyone by surprise. Most thought that the Syrian forces, albeit without the scale of support once available to them from... Articles
The Big Step Walk from Arsenal to Downing Street 5th December 2024 This week The Big Step walked from Arsenal to 10 Downing Street to hand the UK Prime Minister theirs and Peter Shilton OBE's petition to end gambling ads and... Local News
It’s time to finally fix the botched Northern Ireland Brexit situation. Here’s how 5th December 2024 The Irish Sea border is a ball and chain round our ankles in other trade deals around the world. On Friday, Parliament will get a chance to finally resolve the... Articles
Middle-class drug users are fuelling the mayhem 1st December 2024 My good friend Noreen Oliver MBE, who died recently, was the founder of the drug charity the BAC O'Connor Centre, helping addicts through rehabilitation to... Articles
Starmer’s Britain won’t be China’s peer, it’ll be Xi’s puppet 19th November 2024 Britain will regret getting into bed with the most brutal and unreliable of regimes. The Prime Minister’s face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping at the... Articles
I know exactly why Donald Trump would like to do a trade deal with UK – Labour must embrace him fully 16th November 2024 The PM campaigned to stop us leaving the EU, then he spent years on the Labour frontbench trying to prevent a clean Brexit. This new Labour Cabinet has made no... Articles
Kemi has shown she’s fearless. That’s exactly what our party needs. 20th October 2024 I believe she has the right attributes: integrity, courage, and the ability to grow in stature as opposition leader. As the ballots go out to members, I feel it... Articles
Banning smoking outside makes no sense and is ironic when NOTHING is done to stop cannabis smokers. 1st September 2024 SOME 60 days in to this Government’s time in office and the list of what Sir Keir Starmer and his cohort of senior ministers dislike and what they plan to do is... Articles
