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🎉🎉🎉 Today Parliament will finally have the chance to introduce proxy voting - it's been nearly a year since the HoC first instructed the govt to get on with it. Like me last June (very pregnant & eating curries in a heatwave) it is long overdue... 🍍🌶🤰(1/5)
Last July, when I was nursing 2 week old baby Gabriel, the Tory party chairman broke our pair, cheating my constituents out of their representation. 2 weeks ago, @TulipSiddiq felt she had no choice but to delay her C-section to vote on Brexit (2/5)
Proxy voting will let MPs who are new parents bond with their babies, without having to worry about their constituents losing their representation. 👶🏼👶🏿👶🏽 This is important for both mums and dads. I think it should also be extended to those bereaved or seriously ill. (3/5)
Proxy voting will allow new parents to spend vital time bonding with their babies, without having to worry about their constituents losing their representation. 👶🏼👶🏿👶🏽 This is important for both mums and dads. I think it should also apply to those bereaved or seriously ill. (3/5)
We may work in a Victorian palace, but today we can take another step towards making it a workplace fit for the 21st century. (4/5)
Of course in the ultimate irony, we will be voting on this modernisation at around 11:15pm tonight! (5/5)
