Welcome to my August newsletter!

Parliament has been in summer recess since the end of July and will return on 2nd September. Recess enables MPs to spend more time in our constituencies, meeting constituents and organisations in our community, an opportunity I am grateful for.

This is my first article in the Stockport Express since my re-election as the Member of Parliament for Stockport in the General Election on 4th July.

This is my first newsletter since my re-election as the Member of Parliament for Stockport in the General Election on 4th July.

I am deeply humbled and profoundly grateful to have been re-elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Stockport, with an increased majority of 15,270.

The Conservatives cannot be trusted with the NHS. Every time they are in government, they run our health service into the ground, dragging down standards and pushing up waiting times to record highs. As the graph below shows, this is truer in 2024 than ever before, despite the hard work of NHS staff.

I am proud to support Labour's ambitious plan for job creation and skills expansion in the North West, which was launched in Stockport last week. I joined Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram at Stockport Interchange to officially announce the proposals.

Research from the National Education Union shows that 84% of schools in Stockport constituency have suffered cuts to funding in real terms since 2010. These cuts equate to a loss of over £5.4 million from schools’ budgets and a £483 fall in funding for each pupil in Stockport constituency. This is unacceptable.