Luke Charters MP
@lukecharters.bsky.social
Labour Member of Parliament for York Outer 🌹Proud Dad & Yorkshireman🫖
Games don’t come bigger than #RAFC vs #YCFC this weekend. Two 100+ point teams head-to-head on the final day for promotion? Proof we need #3UP. That’s why @paulwaughmp.bsky.social and I have written to DAZN asking for it to be free-to-air. Up the Minstermen! 🔴🔵📄⬇️
Know anything about Restore Britain, the party that span out of Reform UK? Here’s all you need to know.
A helpful reminder for anyone who needs one: Reform UK was called the Brexit Party before 2021. In 2019, Farage said there was “no difference between the Brexit Party and UKIP in terms of policy.” Same politics. New branding. Don’t be fooled.
Miss one payment and you could face a bailiff at your door 🚪 I have been working with StepChange & Ministers to push for fairer, more consistent council tax debt collection that supports vulnerable people 🤝 We need a system that helps people recover financially, not makes things worse.
Toxic content is sometimes just a few clicks away. That worries me as a parent.
For context, the most expensive general admission at Euro 2020 at Wembley was €945 (£825). This? Ten times that. TEN. TIMES. A disgrace. A sport built by working-class fans, now only for those with the deepest pockets. FIFA = Football Is For the Affluent. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup tickets: $11,000 tickets put on sale for final
The first open sale of tickets for the 2026 World Cup showed Fifa is charging up to $10,990 (£8,333) to be at the final.
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Reform pretend to be on the side of working people. The reality? They’re led by snobby millionaires who have no idea how much cost-of-living support matters to families. They’re not on your side. Labour is.
𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 ⚡ From today, households will see around £117 off energy bills thanks to the price cap first proposed by Ed Miliband in 2013. Labour’s plan for clean, homegrown energy means lower bills, greater energy security and protection from global price shocks.
💡Energy price capped. 📈National Living Wage increased. 💷National Minimum Wage increased. 💊Prescription charge frozen. 🖍️Funded childcare for 3 & 4-year-olds. ✅Day-one family leave. ⬆️State pension increased. This Labour Government IS tackling the cost of living. Change.🌹
Farage wants to cut young people’s pay. Labour thinks otherwise. That’s why the minimum wage goes up today under our watch. 🦕 Dinosaurs vs doers. 🌹
Next time you go to fill your car up, remember this video.⛽️🎥
🚨𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃: 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐔𝐊’𝐬 “𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠” 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧 🇮🇷 Favoured escalating the Iran war, pushing up petrol and energy costs to extreme levels 💷 Oppose national minimum wage increases, particularly for young workers 1/
“Trail hunting” isn’t some quaint countryside tradition. It’s a loophole to keep fox hunting alive. Foxes torn apart while right-wing politicians look the other way. Or even worse, defend it. No longer. Labour's a step closer to banning it for good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trail hunting ban moves closer as government consultation begins
Animal welfare campaigners welcome a
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Askham Bryan are doing fantastic work with their Level 2 apprenticeships and T Level courses. The place is packed with talented students and brilliant staff. Great to get out for a few hours, meet some of the lambs and enjoy a bit of Yorkshire sunshine! 🐑 ☀️
Farage has ignored football for YEARS. Except of course when he opposed creating a new independent regulator to stand up for fans. But this week? Suddenly he’s at Ipswich. Now he’s talking about Sunderland. Why? Opportunism. 1/2
Britain has a problem with accent snobbery: it’s time we talked about it. Jumped on Chopper’s Podcast this week to get into that, plus cherry pickers, social media bans and more. Thanks to Christopher Hope, top interviewer and bloke. Watch the full chat 👇 youtu.be/72yv31r0ick?si…
Let’s talk about all these right-wing stunts for a second. This week alone we’ve had: 🚛 Kemi Badenoch posing with a fuel truck ⛽ Robert Jenrick at a petrol station in Dover ⚽ Nigel Farage at a football ground Look, every party does the odd stunt. 1/
Foreign cryptocurrencies flooding into our politics? Not anymore, thanks to Labour’s announcements. ✅🌹
Labour’s making children’s futures brighter. Here’s how. ⬇️✅
@nus-uk.bsky.social @rethinkrepayment.bsky.social and others have rightly put student finance on the agenda, and everyone agrees we need a fairer system. 🎓 What does that look like to you? Share your ideas below.
I watched Inside the Manosphere on Netflix. Uncomfortable, eye-opening, and hard to ignore. 🎬 Here’s my TEN unfiltered thoughts.
Over the weekend I watched Inside the Manosphere by Louis Theroux. As the youngest parent in Parliament, I spend a lot of time thinking about the world my two boys will grow up in. So here are my thoughts. Unfiltered. ** MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS **
🇪🇺🎓 A cuppa and a catch up about Erasmus coming back! Great to have Amira and Alex from @nus-uk.bsky.social pop into my parliamentary office for a cuppa and a chat about the UK rejoining Erasmus+. ☕️
What does the future of Britain’s railways look like? I saw it for myself at York Station🚉 From complex signalling to tough weather and busy routes, apprentices get hands on, high tech training that builds real confidence. 🎮🌧️ York has been at the heart of the railways and it will continue to be.💪
We all need to think about how social media is shaping our children’s lives. 💭📱 But don’t just take my word for it. After convening a consultation in York, I gathered reflections from a parent, a former teacher, and a therapeutic counsellor who works with children. Here are their thoughts.🗣️
Today is Love Your Pet Day, and I've given Woody, Pretzel, and Basil extra treats. Pets are family, and that's why I've supported reforms for more transparent and fair vet bills. I discussed with the York Press how this will ease unexpected costs for families, allowing them to focus on pet care.🐶
