What have I been up to in Hackney and Westminster this week? 1. 💷 Quizzing the Chancellor I quizzed the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Treasury Select Committee on the Budget from two weeks ago. ✅ 2. 📮 Standing up for our posties I met with the Communications Workers Union, who represent the posties we rely on so much, to hear their concerns about what’s been going badly wrong at Royal Mail — including letters taking weeks to arrive. ✅ 3. 🏦 Protecting consumers I’ve be

Read my Financial Times article on the UK Treasury needing to keep consumers front and centre.

📍 Hackney to Westminster – here’s my weekly round-up! 🏗️ Building skills, building futures! Last week I visited the Skills Centre in Hackney Wick, where people are gaining the practical, hands-on experience they need to get into construction. From the classroom straight into employment with local employers – opening doors, changing lives and helping build London’s future! 👷‍♀️ 💷 Holding the Treasury to account. As Chair of the Treasury Select Committee, I questioned the

Dame Meg Hillier MP welcomes constituents in Westminster Hall to lobby on AI. Hackney’s hidden gem William Gee William Gee is one of Hackney’s oldest businesses providing haberdashery to the fashion trade for 120 years. Originally on Kingsland Road it remains a gem but is a bit more hidden since its recent move around the corner onto Forest Road, where it now hosts sewing classes. Founded in 1906, the company has remained in the same family ownership ever since. At the end of

Great to join BBC Radio 4’s ‘Westminster Hour’ to discuss why we need to serious conversation about Britain’s future relationship with Europe. In Hackney South and Shoreditch, I’ve spoken to local businesses that have struggled with the barriers Brexit created, and to many young people frustrated by opportunities that feel further out of reach than they once did. This is an important debate to have. We have to think long-term about what is best for our economy, our communitie

🎥 Weekly Round-up! 🗞️ I was pleased to welcome the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, @patmcfaddenmp , to Hackney earlier this week. We visited @scopecharity to discuss their amazing work supporting disabled people into work through its excellent work programmes! This week saw the Chancellor’s #budget . For 48,000 people in #hackney living in council bands A-D, they’ll get an extra £100 back off their council tax💰 I spoke in the chamber on a bill aimed to remove dan