Labour/Co-Op MP for #Birmingham #Edgbaston - PPS to SOS @Biztradegovuk preet.gill.mp@parliament.uk 0121-392-8426
Oct 14 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Human rights cannot be applied selectively. The UK has binding obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to uphold women’s sex-based rights and ensure their safety, privacy, and dignity. 🧵
Yet this cornerstone of international law is entirely absent from the Commissioner’s analysis.
The letter warns against zero-sum debates, but in doing so it pretends conflicts do not exist. In practice, sex and gender identity can come into tension in spaces such as prisons
Jul 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Supreme Court makes clear that in the context of the Equality Act, sex means biological sex. That is now settled law, and as lawmakers and public servants, we have a duty to respect and uphold it. 🧵
The Court’s role is not to reflect on people’s feelings or politics. It is to interpret the law as written. What, it has reaffirmed is the legal right for women, meaning biological females to access single sex spaces and services, where privacy, safety or fairness are essential.
May 6 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
A Thread on #UkIndiaTradeDeal and NI👇🏽
The UK already exempts all foreign temporary workers from 1 year of NI contributions.
The UK has 16 agreements preventing double taxation of work covering over 50 countries. This applies to foreign temporary workers in the UK and also UK citizens working temporarily abroad. The full list can be found here: gov.uk/government/pub…
May 2 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Here’s what Labour’s Plan for Change has delivered this week:
💷 Frozen prescription charges in England for the first time in years to help ease the cost of living
🏥 1.5 million hospital appointments saved from being missed through expanding the NHS app
🌎 £101 million package for the Occupied Palestinian Territories boosting our support to the Palestinian people and working in partnership to reform and empower the Palestinian Authority
🪝Labour will seize and crush fly-tippers’ vans to clean up Britain’s streets
Jun 18, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
A year ago Boris Johnson promised to share 100 million surplus vaccines with the world’s poorest countries.
A year later: barely a third have been delivered, he has cut the aid budget to do it, and profiteered at poor countries’ expense.
Thread 1/10🧵👇🏽
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…2) In June 2021, Boris Johnson told the G7 group of nations that we need to “vaccinate the world” by the end of 2022.
To do this, he announced that the UK would share 100 million doses of the Covid vaccine that we had going spare within a year.
