I want to thank everybody for your kind messages of solidarity this month, which marked 40 years since I was elected as the MP for Islington North (09/06). I was so grateful for the words of thanks from so many of you at the recent Labour Party (CLP) fundraiser. A huge well done to all …
Everyone has a right to be free to access to nature and we must have a national strategy. I’ve always campaigned on environmental issues, the threat to nature, global warming, and environmental destruction, consistently supporting these issues when they’re raised in Parliament and elsewhere. I spoke on this during the ‘Protecting and Restoring Nature: COP15 …
I am completely opposed to the granting of new licences for oil extraction, and I will continue to call on the Government to exercise the powers it has to stop granting them. Opening new oil fields, and Rosebank is one of them, threatens to undermine our shared obligations to dramatically reduce emissions. I am also …
I have consistently championed animal rights over many years, via my support for all steps and legislation against animal cruelty, and this includes signing countless Early Day Motions opposing practices and actions that treat animals cruelly. A fur free Britain is now long overdue. Here is the transcript of today’s debate here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-06-27/debates/E62F1FD2-70D3-41DC-A3A3-E427E063E79C/ImportAndSaleOfFur
I support a ban on Israeli settlement goods. Israel must stopping profiting from human rights abuses. I am all too aware, as are so many of us, of the Israeli government’s oppression of the Palestinian people, and in so many ways. The conclusion that Israel is an apartheid state has been drawn by international, Israeli, …
I am very concerned about the announcement that the kept animal Bill will be dropped. I am completely opposed to live animal exports and want to see all of it banned. I also agree that it is a very bad situation we are facing where this legislation, like many other bills, is now to be …
