Glebe Farm & Tile Cross will receive up to £20m over 10 years. This funding belongs to local people, not Westminster. Want a say? Join us talking to residents this summer: liam.byrne.mp@parliament.uk

As Mr Burnham finishes an excellent first week, and the debate about wealth tax hots up, here’s your essential background reading! Available here: amzn.eu/d/02jW9Mu2 or wherever you get your books

I have been campaigning to end homelessness ever since I lost my dad to a lifelong struggle with alcohol. That's the country we're fighting to rebuild - one where nobody falls through the cracks.

It’s time to strengthen the Conservation Area protections in Castle Bromwich. I'm gathering residents' opinions before providing a submission to the Council. Give your views via my survey! www.liambyrnemp.co.uk/conservation And read my Solihull Observer column! solihullobserver.co.uk/news/westmin...

30,000 newsletters are being delivered to every corner of the constituency! None of it happens without this lot; volunteers and young students who have been giving up their time to deliver these newsletters to keep residents informed. They've been getting the job done. 1/2

It’s stories like these that help explain why so many MPs want a total ban of crypto donations to British politics….

The new Prime Minister promised some breathing space within the cost-of-living-crisis and removing VAT from domestic electricity bills will do that for households throughout Hodge Hill and Solihull North.

I very much welcome today's first move to cut business rates for pubs, clubs and hospitality businesses - but that has to be the FIRST step, not the LAST step in whole sale reform. Business rates are one of the clearest examples of a tax system that has lost control of its purpose. 1/13

A £2 bus fare will help every family in Hodge Hill and Solihull North get around – to get to work, to college, to wherever they need to be!

Out at Kent Moats Rec Park in Garretts Green - grabbed a litter picker alongside @SaddakMiah and some brilliant young volunteers who gave up their time to look after their park. Small thing, big difference. This is what pride in your local area looks like!🧤🗑️

Albert Road in Glebe Farm and Tile Cross - it has been a long-running fight to sort out issues for residents. But, after months of pushing the council, we're starting to see results! 1/3

Congratulations @andyburnham.bsky.social ! A warm, clear-eyed and heartening speech to kick off his premiership!

Andy Burnham enters Downing Street promising to rewire our economy, reindustrialise Britain and put hope in every heart. But how we turn those ambitions into a governing project for a deep and equal freedom? Here’s this weeks essay: open.substack.com/pub/liambyrn...

WATCH: Discussing Wealth Tax on @lbc.co.uk with Andrew Marr and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social 1/2

Britain's G20 Presidency in 2027 is a real chance for action, not just a photo op. A coordinated minimum wealth tax on the super-rich - agreed together, so capital can't simply run - would raise serious resources and show the kind of leadership economic security demands.

The case for G20 coordination on wealth taxes

The question is no longer whether we can tax extreme wealth effectively - it's whether we can afford not to

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Out on Este Road in Garretts Green for our weekly street surgery. Residents told me about the parking and speeding issues - and the anti-social behaviour of e-bike riders. Plus, the potholes that never seem to get properly fixed. I'm onto all of it.

This morning, the Business and Trade Committee is questioning ministers from Department for Business and Trade; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and Ministry of Defence on UK exports of arms and of any components that could be put to military use.

I welcomed the UK-Switzerland trade deal today - £5.2bn a year for British services exporters is real money for real jobs. But I pressed the Minister on the small print: → Does this lock in higher costs for NHS medicines? → Is access to generic medicine genuinely protected? Our exchange:

For weeks, I’ve been warning of a critical incident in Dover unless the EU suspends its new border checks until the system actually works. This isn't a technical glitch. Thank you @itvnews.bsky.social Business & Economics Editor, Joel Hills, for the reporting: www.itv.com/news/2026-07... 1/2

This afternoon, the Business and Trade Committee has a pre-appointment hearing with the Government's preferred candidate for Chair of the Financial Reporting Council, Jayne-Anne Gadhia. 👀 Live from 2.30pm: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

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Here’s this weeks essay, with an intro to the essay I’ve written for @neweconomics.bsky.social on why Mr Burnham should a global coordination of wealth tax strategy at the G20 open.substack.com/pub/liambyrn...

Here’s this weeks essay, with an intro to the essay I’ve written for @neweconomics.bsky.social on why Mr Burnham should a global coordination of wealth tax strategy at the G20 open.substack.com/pub/liambyrn...

Here’s @guardian with the story about my new essay for @NEF on how the UK can use next years G20 presidency to make progress on restoring fairness to our tax system w/ international cooperation on wealth taxes www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Labour MPs call for Andy Burnham to restore aid spending target set by Brown

Thinktank urges prospective prime minister to reclaim UK’s role as an international leader on development

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A very important shift in position by Andy Burnham. I, along with colleagues in Labour Friends of Palestine & the Middle East, have been pushing hard for this – 1/3 x.com/andyburnham/...

Andy Burnham (@andyburnham) on X

Labour’s initial response to the treatment of Gaza caused huge hurt. We got it wrong and I am sorry for that.

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Andy Burnham’s economy speech last week was a big moment. After Labour’s long “hot essay summer”, here at last was an economic strategy that could reboot shared growth, from the visible economy of our high streets to the commanding heights of tomorrow’s industries.

'‘Let's make devolution work’ - LabourList

Devolution must stop being seen as a constitutional reform and start being treated as an economic strategy.

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Most British businesses still aren’t using AI, while around 7/10 workers are employed in jobs where AI could reshape the tasks they perform. The Business & Trade Committee’s inquiry is asking a simple question: is Britain preparing for the biggest change to the world of work since the internet?

Today, the Business & Trade Committee will question Secretary of State, Department of Business & Trade, Peter Kyle, about the work of his department. He'll be joined by Amanda Brooks CBE interim Permanent Secretary, Department of Business &Trade. Live from 2.30pm: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

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When our Business & Trade Committee investigated the pressures facing Britain’s small firms earlier this year, we heard the same story again and again. Rising energy costs. Higher business rates. Crime. Cash flow pressures. Endless complexity. 1/7

We need to take dark money, like crypto currency, out of politics for good - that’s why only a total ban will do. My question in the Commons today:

The Business and Trade Committee is calling for a new UK-US economic relationship that focuses on the practical needs of businesses, rather than sector tariff mitigations.