I have been a long-time campaigner on mental health issues and have long opposed the creeping privatisation and underfunding of our mental health and medical services provided through the NHS. I am very concerned about the lack of support currently available and that many children don’t have access to services to get the mental health …
I have campaigned for many years on environmental issues, including the damaging effect of plastic pollution. I have consistently raised the issue of plastic in and out of Parliament. Plastic pollution is unquestionably one of today’s great environmental scourges. In January 2018, the Government pledged to eradicate all avoidable plastic waste in the UK by …
It breaks my heart to see the Government cutting back on essential support and services that the needy and vulnerable families depend on to survive and thrive, using the cost of Covid to justify that. And children suffer, not just in the short term, but their life chances are unfairly and negatively affected. In 2019 …
The current situation in Colombia is grave indeed and I share many of my constituents’ concerns regarding the extraordinary events that have unfolded following the ongoing national strike that began on 28 April. I stand in solidarity with the people of Colombia who, despite the violence and abuse of power from the police force, continue …
The UK is a guarantor of Cypriot independence under the 1960 UN treaty, and I was very disappointed to see the latest round of UN-led peace talks end yet again without an agreement earlier this year, as they had done in 2017. The Island of Cyprus should never have been divided. The illegal 1974 Turkish …
I am deeply concerned about the high statistics that show the level of sexual violence, misogyny and microaggressions faced by women in the UK. Reports have shown a rise in domestic abuse and reports of rape during the Covid-19 pandemic. Statistics from the 2020/2021 Report by Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) showed almost one in …
