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30 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Posting to reiterate my strong support for Labour's call on govt to implement circuit breakers with targetted financial support to prevent hardship and loss of jobs, rapid improvement to test&trace, better comms and more. Govt is refusing to heed call from own scientific advisors
Meanwhile in Bristol our city council and public health leaders are doing their best with a very unsatisfactory level of support from national govt. Businesses, jobs, lives and livelihoods are at stake and without clear national govt leadership that's really difficult.
Bristol Covid infections and hospitalizations rising rapidly and it's a shared responsibility for us all to help halt this by following social distancing and other guidance. We all have a role to play.

Please all follow the guidance- lives and livelihoods at stake
To reiterate: I support circuit breaker with targetted ££ support and rapid improvement in test/trace/isolate and comms and in meantime of course I support approach Bristol is taking and urge everyone to co-operate for all our sakes. This is everyone's problem.
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31 Oct
This morning's updated #Covid news will sobering. We need urgent action but also we didn't need to be here.
Weeks ago, Labour leader Keir saw the evidence and called for a short circuit breaker over half term to fix testing etc.
- Johnson ridiculed it
- Sunak blocked it.
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Now we face a much harder lockdown
- this Tory Govt were too slow to act, on health or on jobs
- people are suffering
- if move to greater restrictions govt needs to use time to fix testing and make a proper plan so they don’t keep repeating the same mistakes
3. It is desperately sad. So many people are going to suffer more. The consequences of this were always going to be tough but the extent of how bad a situation we are in now was both predictable and predicted.
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THREAD: 1. People in private rented homes are struggling and govt must act. government has paused evictions for three months and answered Labour’s call to increase the Local Housing Allowance. Both are welcome, but do not go far enough.
2. Jobs and livelihoods will take time to recover, and if evictions are allowed to restart before people can start earning again, we could see an unprecedented spike in homelessness. This is avoidable and govt needs to act.
3. In the long term we urgently need to fix our broken housing system, with stronger regulation of rented sector and more affordable and social housing. In the short-term, our 5-point plan would help many people not to lose their homes because of the necessary Covid-19 measures.
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11 Mar
News from UK-EU negotiations.
1. Likely to be postponed.
2. Gove admitd that security Agreement probably won't be done by end of year.
3. Likely services wouldn't be included in the trade deal.
4. This is all a long way from 'exact same benefits' the Theresa May govt promised.
On 1, likely delay, that's because of Covid19, which is understandable. But that's exactly why we proposed amendment to Withdrawal Agreement Bill to give govt option of delaying, because of unforeseen events. Govt refused. This is dangerous, esp. if security Agreement not done.
On 2, Gove admitting may not have Agreement on security by end of this year, this will cause security and police chiefs huge problems. If no replacement for European Arrest Warrant arrangements it will be very difficult to return criminals between UK and EU (either direction)
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16 Dec 19
During the campaign I met lots of people I've worked with or helped during the last 4 years but also realised lots of people don't know what an MP can (and can't) do in constituency or Westminster. I'll blog about this later in the week. For now, some examples of how I can help:
If you're having problems and got stuck in a process with Universal Credit, Tax office, immigration service, benefits assessments, council or any other state agency - i. e. Public not private - my caseworkers and I may be able to advocate on your behalf and get it sorted.
We can't help with initial applications usually, that's something Citizen's Advice or Law Centres or local advice agencies better for. But once a process has started, if it gets stuck or you think something has gone wrong, we can try to help.
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25 Nov 19
THREAD to mark UN International day to #EndViolenceAgainstWomen which is today, 25th November, as per UN resolution 54/134. This is the date on which, in 1960, the Mirabal sisters, Dominican Republic activists, were murdered on the order of the Dominican Leader.
2. Why is International Day to #EndViolenceAgainstWomen women still needed? 49 countries have no laws against any violence in a marital/intimate relationship (also known as domestic abuse/violence). In 37, rapists escape prosecution if married to or eventually marry the victim
3. Across the world, including in the UK, women who are killed are more likely to be killed by partner, ex-partner or family member than any other category of person. In UK, two women per week are killed by partner or ex.
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12 Apr 19
A few notes about Swedish law on rape & sexual assault: an alleged accused cannot be charged without being interviewed, which has to happen within five years (sexual assault) and ten (rape) of alleged offences. This is the statute of limitations.
So if a hypothetical person refuses to make themselves available for interview about allegations against them, this can lead to the case being dropped. It does not prove either innocence or guilt, simply that the statute of limitations has applied and time has run out.
As I understand it, investigations could be re-opened if the accused person made themselves available.
I’m not a lawyer, this isn’t legal advice, it’s info I’ve gleaned from online legal resources after feeling frustrated by hearing references to ‘cases being dropped’
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