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Care co-ops should help shape the National Care Service. Andrew Pakes MP put that idea to Care Minister Alison McGovern MP, who confirmed co-operative values are part of the Government’s thinking, empowering people and ensuring their voices are heard.

We took on the gambling industry. And we won! Years of campaigning. Communities refusing to give up. Now we've earned greater powers to decide whether new gambling venues can open in our neighbourhoods. A huge victory for our communities. Read my article in The Voice.

One of the things I find most bizarre about the lingering sympathy for Russia on the crank left is that Russia's long history of imperialism *doesn't* get framed as the dreaded 'settler colonialism' - even though it clearly was. Did it not count because Russia conquered by land rather than sea?

Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · last wk.

This. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Busy day for in Holborn and St Pancras. Sagal is going to be an amazing MP.

Strong narrative and analysis about where we are as a country matched with some proper ambition about how to respond to those challenges from Andy

Tomorrow at @labouruk.bsky.social Conference, I will announce that we will nationalise Avanti West Coast train services at the first opportunity. We are building a railway Britain can rely on. www.thetimes.com/article/b68f...

Avanti West Coast main line set to be nationalised in March

The transport secretary says the operator’s Manchester to London route ‘hasn’t been good enough for far too long’ and passengers have been paying the price

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It’s not a silver bullet but bringing more empty homes back into use can help solve the housing crisis. Today, we’re announcing strengthened powers for councils to take control of long-term empty homes and use them to house families in need.

I’m delighted to see this announcement include EDMO reform to tackle empty properties. I campaigned for years for this at both WCC and the LGA. It should help make Empty Dwelling Management Orders actually usable, creating a real tool in the arsenal of local authorities to bring homes back into use.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers

Great to see a new publicly owned bus (the 6) will be running through my area.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4w ago

A brand new bus company. Owned by London. Run by London. For years, Londoners have told me they want to see more bus routes under public ownership. Today, we begin our mission to deliver just that. www.itv.com/news/london/2026-09-25/publicly-owned-bus-company-announced-for-london

Having a strong pan-London approach for freight consolidation is crucial to managing a world where personal car use falls but congestion remains high. Also speeding up lane rental approvals which are taking way too long. Both would significantly help with bus speeds alongside bus priority measures.

Oliver Lord@olord.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bravo @theguardian.com for this! Tragic to see decline in ridership @sebdance.bsky.social - we live in subscription culture - offer Londoners cheaper bus pass on direct debit - more bus gates to give priority - make 24hr bus lanes actually 24hr - remove parking! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

More officers. Smarter tech. Record funding. Fewer places for phone thieves to hide.

As expected the new Conservative administration in Westminster announcing its plans to flip homes in the Council's pipeline from social housing to intermediate. Also the start of their campaign to try to persuade GLA to lift the household income cap from 75k www.westminster.gov.uk/news/westmin...

Westminster City Council launches key worker housing delivery plan | Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is launching a delivery plan to help key workers, including nurses, poli

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Delighted our Social Housing Bill passed its Second Reading this week. At its heart are radical reforms to the Right to Buy to protect precious social rented homes and incentivise the building of more of them. The Bill also gives greater protections to tenants who are victims of domestic abuse.

Wishing Happy New Year to all our Jewish residents and friends across Westminster celebrating Rosh Hashanah this evening. We hope this coming year brings everyone peace, prosperity and good health. Shana Tova! #Roshhashanah

We’ve seen this movie before. It ends with homelessness, Temporary Accommodation costs crippling local councils, renters in severe financial hardship. That this can be done without huge social damage is the politics of wishful thinking.

Jules Birch@julesbirch.bsky.social · last mo.

‘We will cap Local Housing Allowance,’ Kemi Badenoch on Today. But it’s already capped, not to mention frozen. Assume she means lower caps

NEW - Ed Miliband announces today - An import ban on goods from illegal settlements in the occupied territories. A comprehensive sanctions regime against providing services such as construction or financing for Israeli settlements. 1/2

Hugely important steps by Ed Miliband on sanctions on illegal settlements in the West Bank. But it is also crucial that this isn't just Britain acting alone but working together to with a broad coalition of likeminded countries to help maximise possible leverage www.gov.uk/government/n...

Joint Foreign Ministers' Statement on the Two-State Solution

Statement of the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK on the Two-State Solution

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Community spaces and organisations are vital to building community cohesion, as evidenced by the great community hubs we were able to open in Westminster. They bring people together from all walks of life, something that is so vital in these fraught times www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Youth clubs, trade unions, pubs: here's how Burnham can fix Britain's social recession | Gordon Brown

From volunteering to the WI, we have lost so many ways to meet our neighbours. Making that easier can only be good for society, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

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Balaclava clad extremists on the streets of Portsmouth and Dover can't be allowed to dominate the political debate (or mess with the RNLI).

It’s been a busy few days on the doors in Holborn and St Pancras. A great team of campaigners from Camden and across London are already hard at work to ensure Labour holds the seat with a hopeful, positive but pragmatic campaign that shows the change we are making locally and nationally.

Out speaking to residents in hugely diverse Somers Town this morning. Not a place receptive to this racist division from Restore (as many residents commented)

This is a disgraceful and racist attack on Sagal who is a committed public servant and local government leader. Reform need to be called out for this divisive nonsense.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)

Strong mix of things that can have a day-to-day impact and deeper transformation that people can still see and feel.

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW - The cabinet was told on Tuesday that the Burnham government will have three key priorities- - cutting costs of essentials like childcare and mortgages - regeneration of communities - greater public control of water, housing and energy

Team Westminster out helping Labour’s by-election campaign in Trinity ward Wandsworth

I grew up in a council home, so I know just how important they are. With £6 billion in funding for more affordable homes, we can transform the lives of thousands of Londoners all over this city.

Finally found this old photo from my first event as a local councillor (16 years ago) celebrating the partnership between Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and the Westbourne Children's Centre, helping give books to young kids in my ward. The reach of Dolly's philanthropy was huge and appreciated

A sitting Conservative MP using the word Yookay. Genuinely astonishing to me that visibly there is no warning sign, at all, will be heeded by loads of people at Westminster with a *direct stake* in this type of politics failing.

Important test for @citywestminster.bsky.social ‘s new administration. Will they stand up to their national front bench and call out this attack on our residents, are they trying to keep their head down or do they agree with it? Conservatives trying to divide our local communities.

Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very depressing that this highly misleading statistic is now being promoted by Conservative Shadow Home Secretary. Philp contrasts “foreign born” with “British citizens” but a lot of the people in the “foreign born” group ARE British citizens.

It’s fantastic news that London will receive £168m of additional funding to support people off the streets - 38% of the national total. We’re determined to support the PM’s drive to ensure everyone has a safe place to sleep, working with London Councils and charities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Andy Burnham unveils plan to get rough sleepers off streets for Christmas

Rough sleepers in England will be offered housing, in a move likened to the “Everyone In” initiative during the pandemic.

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