What has Alison McGovern been up to today?
Alison McGovern is MP for Wirral South and a member of the Labour party.
Alison McGovern has 56738 followers on Twitter.
Looking forward to heading up to Washington for @BBCRadio4 Any Questions tomorrow eve with @RicHolden @Alison_McGovern @ProfKatyShaw.
Tickets still available if you fancy a nice Friday evening debate https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bbcs-any-questions-at-washington-academy-tickets-362915950377
I have done scores of political meetings with small babies present. Never once thought it anything other than a heathly reminder of who politics is for: the next generation to come.
‘working in a place where some wander round boasting about never having changed a nappy and leaving notes on the desks of those working from home accusing them of being lazy, it’s embarrassing how backward parliament is compared to modern workplaces.’ https://tinyurl.com/2xw62wzz
How many more foodbanks? How many more tax rises? How much longer can this go on?
@AngelaRayner nails it #pmqs #EnoughIsEnough
It's finally time - "The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists" opens today!
Harriet Harman expected to lead inquiry into #Partygate claims
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/659cbba0-f725-11ec-ad14-7b04276f4c1f?shareToken=3f68d4edeff1f68af9a7b96cf39f6841
Priorities for @NicolaSturgeon https://twitter.com/michaeljmarra/status/1541784444591374339
Due to the First Minister’s statement on her referendum bill the debate tonight on Scotland’s drug deaths has been postponed.
Pretty sure the women of Devizes will have enough autonomy to tell their MP what they think of this
Tory MP Danny Kruger says he doesn’t agree that “women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy".
Every single child should be presented with careers options alongside attending the school’s sixth form.
@Independent covering @ukLabour push for more careers guidance in schools | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/labour-labour-party-toby-perkins-naht-bill-b2110652.html?amp
In bang-for-buck terms, the two child limit really is the gold standard of targeted poverty-increasing policies. https://ifs.org.uk/publications/13804
We are meeting today at 730pm in #blackpool to organise as women who believe our representative @ScottBentonMP needs to listen to our voices on woman’s reproductive rights after he tweeted support of the supreme courts decision. Together we are stronger. Please share
Instead of trying to resolve the rail dispute the Tories are using it as another excuse to attack trade unions my piece for @LabourList https://labourlist.org/2022/06/breaking-strikes-using-agency-workers-is-recklessly-gambling-with-public-safety/
☎️ 470,000 mental health 999 calls each year.
🚑 Thousands going to A&E in a mental health crisis.
⏳ Some children stuck in A&E for days waiting for a mental health bed.
The Government needs to get a grip of the mental health crisis across our country.
So good - first time in Redcar - what a beautiful place. And a joy to hang out with friends old and new ♡
Massive thanks to the brilliant @Alison_McGovern for coming to @RCLabour summer BBQ ☀️🌹. We loved having you for what was a gorgeous afternoon with our Redcar Labour family. 🥰
Lovely BBQ with @Alison_McGovern and Labour in Redcar. Good chat about skills gap, under utilising capable staff, the lack of funding for training, inadequate apprenticeship programmes and a need for quality well paid jobs in Teesside. Labour supports business and the workers
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It isn't just that @BorisJohnson's '2030' comments are a massive mickey-take. It's also that every day he stays in office he does more damage to the institutions of government we all rely on. We owe everyone better than Tory party vandalism.
The Tories now face a credible Labour party: a government-in-waiting with a plan to deliver on the country’s demands.
We will not shy away from that responsibility, duck those challenges or fail to grasp the opportunities our country has.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/labour-has-now-claimed-the-centre-ground-and-has-shown-it-can-win
So good to be with many friends at @great_together today - our @emilyspurrell speaking here. All the diverse Birkenhead community here saying we have #moreincommon
@MickWhitleyMP @J___Williamson @WirralDeen @SuePercy7
We are outside Birkenhead Library until 3pm at the @great_together Birkenhead!
Join us for cupcakes, soft drinks and to find out more about our group. 🎉
It was @ellatoone99 with England's third! 🙌
Watch the #Lionesses live on @ITV4.
Boris Johnson under attack his entire political career?
Do me a favour. He hasn't got a clue what hard work looks like.
Unlike the hundreds of @UKLabour activists who brought it home for #Wakefield yesterday 💪
“People are sick to the back teeth of Boris Johnson”
Shadow Minister for Employment @Alison_McGovern tells #Newsnight that the Tories don’t trust the PM and Labour is ready for a general election after they won Wakefield
'History is not linear: progress and backlash happen simultaneously.'
I feel this every day in politics. So we fight, always. Never give in. Never give up on progress. #Roe
“The plan to overturn Roe was out in the open all along. It was being shouted in the streets and preached about in Sunday sermons” Outstanding, bleak, essential & eye-witness essay by @lyzl on the long game by the Christian Right to roll back Roe v Wade http://www.ft.com/content/7ea28afc-2ee8-47cd-b84d-8fd77c3d1faf
This casts a dark shadow across the world. Women’s rights, fought for so hard and for so long, can apparently be swept away in a moment. Unutterably grim https://twitter.com/business/status/1540337423435137025
BREAKING: The US Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and wiped out the constitutional right to abortion, issuing a historic ruling likely to render the procedure largely illegal in half the country https://trib.al/RLk883u
Sir Robert spent the rest of this interview wriggling and jiggling about whether Boris Johnson should remain Prime Minister. Courage is a fine attribute in politics, but sadly there was none on display from South Swindon’s MP today. https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1540240332620693506
Tory MP Sir @RobertBuckland says the by-election defeats are a “perfect storm” including the cost of living crisis and confidence in Boris Johnson’s leadership.
#KayBurley: http://trib.al/dwvcRFT
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Nothing illustrates the Tories problem better than this.
Raab going from saying "we've had distractions" to "but focus on what we are doing....I've published a British bill of rights" in just a few breaths. https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1540232915468132353
Raab: "We've had distractions because of partygate,too much Westminster internal focus...but if I look at what we're doing, Chancellor tackling cost of living...Transport Sec taking measures to deal with strikes...I published a bill of rights..."
@Alison_McGovern @DominicRaab @BBCr4today You can almost hear him watching the clock and thinking "where's Gary with the sport?"
This @DominicRaab interview 😆 @BBCr4today
My Lord, do share more of your electoral expertise
It's important to cut through the noise and spin on the Wakefield and Tiverton results.
Both are terrible for @Conservatives.
Neither is particularly good for @labour or @LibDems.
Why? (1/4)
Who's gonna send your petition about the rail strikes to the Labour Party now, lad? https://twitter.com/OliverDowden/status/1540191893258207232
My letter of resignation to the Prime Minister.
Everyone in Wirral South knows that by-elections sometimes say big things. Welcome to the club, friends in Wakefield.
Everyone on doors was so kind and friendly yesterday. It was a joy to be a part of the @UKLabour team ♡
UK Conservatives lose two by-elections, dealing blow to PM Johnson https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-liberal-democrats-claim-victory-against-johnsons-conservatives-parliamentary-2022-06-24/
So proud of Wakefield’s new MP, the fantastic @simonlightwood.
This was @UKLabour’s biggest victory here since we were last in government.
This decisive result shows Labour is winning the trust of the British people, and firmly on the path to power.
Congratulations to @simonlightwood!
The new Labour MP for Wakefield. 🌹
#Wakefield step count...ouch
Polls are now closed!
Thank you to everyone who has supported me.
Aaaand we’re done!!!
Lovely to end the day campaigning with @Alison_McGovern Team Wirral @FinlayMBGordon @jimmysergi_ @WTarbiat (and @Ashley__Dalton).
It’s been so much fun campaigning for @simonlightwood and such a well-run campaign.
Good luck at the count!
Think we must have been the last team out #Wakefield @UKLabour #pollingday @wesstreeting @FinlayMBGordon @jimmysergi_ @Ashley__Dalton ♡
Loved joining @Alison_McGovern and Team Wirral this afternoon on the #LabourDoorstep in #Wakefield!🌹 Lots of support for @simonlightwood - he's achieved so much already imagine what he could do as the MP!🌟 #WinningWakefield
Beautiful sunny polling day in #Wakefield @UKLabour
Good news. Well done to the Friends of Bromborough Library and @SuePercy7
https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/20227051.bromborough-library-stay-open-community-prepares-robust-bid/
First up at today’s PMQs is @CPJElmore who asks whether the Prime Minister has ever sought advice on how to appoint his now wife to a taxpayer funded position? #PMQs 🔥
The Prime Minister’s answer to my question could not have been clearer. Much like his answers on #PartyGate. And PPE contracts. And proroguing Parliament. Watch this space 👀 #PMQs
Private sector wages including bonuses real increase: 0.6%
Private sector wages excluding bonuses real decrease: -2.4%
No wonder they aren't denying the plan to lift the cap on bankers' bonuses.
- Starmer hammers Johnson re his supposed plan to lift bankers’ bonuses
- weirdly PM isn’t denying it
- whereas yesterday No 10 insisted the bankers bonus cap *will* remain
- and said proposal was merely re letting non-execs take more shares as part of remuneration packages
Q1. He's already banging on about 'payroll employment'. Not the million people who have *left* the labour market altogether #PMQs
If you hear @BorisJohnson talk about jobs today at #pmqs, it is quite likely to be nonsense:
https://labourlist.org/2022/06/the-conservatives-are-overseeing-a-criminal-waste-of-britains-potential/
The cost of living crisis is being made worse by @BorisJohnson ‘s poor trade deal with the EU new research from @resfoundation finds today with workers on av £470 a year worse off & long term damage to Britain’s openness and competitiveness https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/22/brexit-is-making-cost-of-living-crisis-worse-new-study-claims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
If you hear @BorisJohnson talk about jobs today at #pmqs, it is quite likely to be nonsense:
https://labourlist.org/2022/06/the-conservatives-are-overseeing-a-criminal-waste-of-britains-potential/
NEW: Inflation up at 9.1% today.
Inflation is pushing family finances to the brink - but the low wage spiral many face isn’t new.
It’s a result of a decade of Tory mismanagement of our economy.
Labour will build the high wage, high growth, stable inflation economy we deserve.
"Johnson wants you to think his failing government is handling the economy well. That is yet another lie. The Tories are overseeing a criminal waste of Britain’s potential," @Alison_McGovern writes: https://labourlist.org/2022/06/the-conservatives-are-overseeing-a-criminal-waste-of-britains-potential/
Lovely sunny afternoon on the doors with lots of people voting Labour this Thursday for @simonlightwood! 🌹 ☀️
#WinningWakefield