Witnessing the suffering of Palestinians when I visited the Occupied Palestinian Territories when I was first elected an MP cemented my firm commitment to advocating for Palestinian rights in Parliament and within the Labour Party and I have spoken out ever since. …

Speech at Worksop Town Hall | 6th February 2020. It has been a gruelling decade for the Labour Party. We are all tired. But I know that defeatism will not do. And there are moments when you find inspiration that compels you to strive for better. Bobby Kennedy once said…

31st January 2020 Dear Friend As the UK prepares to leave the EU, I wanted to thank you for the friendship and solidarity that has allowed us to achieve so much together and look forwards to what we must do next. I am so proud that we stood together to…

Speech at Centrepoint | 22nd January 2020. What would a genuinely empowering social security system look like? I am so proud to be back here at Centrepoint. Where in many ways, as a 23-year-old, my journey to this leadership contest really began. It is here that I first started to…

Internationalism is under attack. Theresa May shamefully said in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in 2016, “If you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.” There are still siren voices in England and Scotland calling for us to turn inward. …

Speech at RSA | 15th January 2020. In the Labour Party we like to say we have a proud internationalist history. But now, as Britain leaves the EU, I want to ask what does that mean? In recent years the question of internationalism has been reduced to a discussion on…

Speech at Londoneast-UK, Dagenham | 13th January 2020 I am so pleased to be back here in Dagenham today. This is a place that means so much to me for so many reasons. The home of the Ford Machinists and their landmark fight for Equal Pay. A fight that showed…