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Southgate Celebrates Festival

Let’s celebrate Southgate! It was wonderful to join Southgate District Civic Voice at their celebratory festival in Southgate’s Pocket Park. This fantastic community event brought residents together through art, culture, and creativity and offered free workshops for all ages. It was wonderful to see so many people from across the community coming together to celebrate […]

Government Announces New Specialist Unit

This morning, the Home Office have announced a new, specialist unit to target shops on our high streets acting as fronts for illegal activity. This is backed by a £20m investment to create the National Crime Agency team dedicated to cracking down on criminal activity. Last month, I presented our petition from local residents in […]

Mental Health Awareness Week

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the theme this year is action, because while awareness matters, real change only comes when we act on it.  To mark this, I met with my constituent, Alina Marinca, who has just finished an outstanding research project on children’s mental health. Too many young people in our community […]

Debt Relief Roundtable with the Zambian High Commission

Today, I visited the Zambian High Commission, to speak to members of the African Union Heads of Mission about my Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Private Member’s Bill. The discussion provided a good opportunity to get together with civil society groups and High Commissioners, and work together on bringing the Bill to the forefront of debate on international […]

Meeting with Director of Education Cannot Wait

It was great to meet with Maysa Jalbout, the new Director of Education Cannot Wait, the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies, to discuss the UK’s ongoing commitment to children whose education has been disrupted by conflict, displacement, and climate disasters. The UK is a founding donor of ECW and has committed £80 million over the […]