Matt Western is MP for Warwick and Leamington

Dominic Raab won’t approve but I did indeed go the opera last week (it cost me £62).

Tom Eisner, a working-class lad from Buxton near where I grew up kindly invited me. He’s been playing violin at Glyndebourne for 36 years.

Never let anyone tell you you’re not good enough. 🎻

Careers advice opens doors for young people, especially raising the profile of apprenticeships.

Under Labour every child will receive professional careers advice and work experience at school, ensuring they leave education ready for work and for life.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/labour-labour-party-toby-perkins-naht-bill-b2110652.html

My speech to the #SMMTSummit today - http://www.jonathanreynolds.org.uk/2022/06/28/read-my-smmt-keynote-speech/

Our plan, From Full Throttle to Full Charge, sets out how industry can work with govt to build an auto ecosystem fit for a zero emission future. If there is the will, effort & action from govt, they will find it more than matched by industry #SMMTSummit

https://www.smmt.co.uk/2022/06/urgent-action-needed-as-uk-auto-faces-90-million-energy-cost-hike/

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/

Labour offers a proper plan for change, to get Britain’s economy growing again so businesses and families can reap the rewards.

Our victory in Wakefield shows there's renewed optimism and hope.

Labour is back on the path to government👇🏼
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/labour-has-now-claimed-the-centre-ground-and-has-shown-it-can-win

NEW🚨: Google searches for 'join union' have increased by 184% in the last week.

The Education Secretary is treating children’s learning as a political battlefield.

No-one wants strikes and no-one wants more disruption to our children’s education.

A short thread 🧵

If you live in Wakefield, today is your chance to send a message to the Tories the can’t ignore:

Vote for @SimonLightwood.

Vote for a fresh start.

#VoteLabour

Childcare is essential to our economic success.

But under the Tories it’s unaffordable and unavailable: pushing women out of work and pricing people out of parenting.

Labour’s recovery plan would invest in the early years premium & school clubs for all.
https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2022/06/poll-childcare-crisis-costs-mothers-at-home

The Windrush generation helped build Britain.

But the Tories' hostile environment left many homeless, jobless and without healthcare. Victims are still waiting for the justice and compensation they deserve.

Windrush descendent @DavidLammy tells their story. #WindrushDay

Thousands of holiday flights cancelled.
People unable to renew their passports.
Biggest rail strike in a generation.

The Tories simply aren’t doing their job.

#PMQs

Canada has sanctioned Alexander Lebedev on a list of 14 people it says has ‘directly enabled Putin’s senseless war in Ukraine.’

At today’s Home Office Qs, I ask for the 7th time, did Boris Johnson meet with him without officials, during the Salisbury poisoning? No answer.

Visiting NATO Allied Maritime Command, I spoke to our troops about the situation in Ukraine and the need to bolster Britain’s defence and security at home and abroad.

Labour’s commitment to NATO is unshakeable. We stand with our allies against Putin's illegal war in Ukraine.

Grant Shapps should spend less time writing to the Labour Party and more time doing his job

Twelve years of Tory rule and clearer than ever they are out of ideas.

Grammar schools:
❌aren’t popular among parents,
❌don’t improve outcomes across the education system,
❌ingrain expectations of failure.

This isn’t about our children’s future — it’s about the PM’s future. https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1538786612502478848

I know the challenges we face can be overcome if government works hand in hand with business.

It’s a partnership that can be the route out of the low growth we’re facing, towards a dynamic economy where opportunity is shared.

My @thetimes piece today.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rachel-reeves-shadow-chancellor-times-ceo-summit-0dqxdfww0

A real privilege to speak at the #TimesCEOSummit today, talking about how Labour will make Britain the best place to start and grow a business.
 
Our new review will make sure start-ups here can reach their full potential, in one of the most innovative countries in the world.

Great speech by @RachelReevesMP today.

The future Labour will build for Britain will be one where government empowers workers with the skills, healthcare, and childcare they need to flourish.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-seeks-a-boost-for-uk-start-ups-r0z97609w

Six years ago our colleague and friend, Jo Cox, was murdered.

In Jo’s memory we continue to look ahead with a belief that the world she believed in so passionately remains within our grasp.

“We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.”

As costs soar, funding of just 7 pence extra a meal is pathetic and will do little to ensure children are getting a healthy, balanced meal. My comment in @DailyMirror👇🏻
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-announce-rise-infant-free-27243500

A week to go! Looking for another Political Advisor focusing on media and comms to join the brilliant Shadow Education team.

If you think that’s you, then please do apply, and if it isn’t you, please do retweet and share. https://twitter.com/bphillipsonMP/status/1534908135982383105

Prime Minister, it’s time to ditch the gimmicks and face up to reality: under your leadership, Britain’s economy is going backwards.

#PMQs

The Tories have let Britain’s growth grind to a halt.

And they are too distracted by their own failings to deal with it.

Labour will get the cost of living crisis under control and build a thriving economy.

It’s truly despicable that a 12-time Conservative candidate sent me a racist death threat.

I will never be silenced by abuse, but this raises serious questions for the Conservatives about the prevalence of anti-Black racism in their party.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/leeds-man-who-sent-racist-death-threat-to-david-lammy-is-12-time-conservative-election-candidate-3726313

Ministers ignored all warnings about deep problems in this policy - from treatment of torture victims to the risk of making people trafficking worse.

Shows shamefully that they care more about picking fights than serious policies. They’ve lost all British decency & common sense

Today @MattWestern_ got an answer to a Q about the council tax rebate🧵https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-05-25/9106

Worrying to see attacks on our universities and govt free speech proposals, are based on something the Minister can’t evidence but ‘believes’ to be true.

Public policy should be based on evidence, not anecdotes.

Universities and students deserve better.

https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2022-6-government-appoints-student-support-champion-for-england/