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When I was born, the room in Barnsley Hospital was filled with flowers from friends, family and people in the local Labour Party. No-one knew how long I’d live for or what operations I’d need.
Growing up in Penistone, living in Stocksbridge in my late teens, I learnt the importance of Labour values – fairness, equality and justice – through my parents and their local Party activism in these communities. I learned there was no such word as ‘can’t’ and that you have to go out in the world and develop your own skills to use them for others.
As a child I missed three years of school because of the surgery I needed, but thanks to the NHS healthcare I received at Barnsley and Sheffield Hospitals I gained the mobility to walk and follow my ambitions. My local state education in Penistone and support from Barnsley Council, enabled me to achieve a place at the University of Oxford – where I studied a law degree, masters and doctorate in Criminology.
I know the difference that world-class public services make to people’s life chances. I’ve lived it.
The Tories don’t understand why community matters, why we need to maintain excellent, free public services. We know that they don’t understand why giving people from less-affluent backgrounds a chance to thrive is worth every penny. But I do.
That’s why I’ve spent the last decade fighting Tory attacks on the most disadvantaged people. My values have been central to my award-winning campaigns as a nationally renowned disability rights activist, legal researcher, an experienced Labour Councillor and Cabinet member.
Now I want to take that fight to the current Conservative MP and the Tories, here in my home constituency. This place is special to me – it’s where my roots are, where my family live and where we want to bring-up our daughter.
I have the background, the values and the experience to win for Labour, and to deliver for people in Penistone and Stocksbridge.
I am asking for your support to be the next Labour MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, and will work hard to do all I can to win and take the Labour Party into power so that we can once again be a government of transformative change.
Delighted to have voted 🗳 for our Penistone West @UKLabour & @CoopParty local election candidate @FrancesHA_Nixon and to re-elect @olivercoppard for South Yorkshire's Mayor!
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And Vote Labour ...today!
Change only comes if you vote for it. Get up and vote Labour today.
With your support tomorrow we can:
🌹 Guarantee a bed for every child under 5
🌹 Extend and renew our @SY_Supertram network
🌹 Bring our buses back under public control
🌹 Reopen @save_dsa
🌹 Plant 1.4 million trees
Don’t leave it to chance!
A really positive evening on the doorstep in Stocksbridge tonight for Mark Whittaker, our @UKLabour local election candidate for Stocksbridge and Upper Don Ward. Two sleeps to go! Thanks to @tomhunt100 @discombobulous &others for joining #votelabour2ndMay
Thoroughly enjoyed visiting @PlacesLeisure 's Thornecliffe site with @Steph_Peacock & @ukactive Ceo, Huw Edwards.
Fascinating to hear about their Big Sister Mentorship Programme to empower teenage girls through their We Move Class. V.impressed by poolside accessibility too!
Our community canvass team in Ecclesfield confirming strong Labour support behind Bridget Kelly for Council on 2 May @MarieTidball for Parliament … whenever the Tories allow us all a General Election
On the day the Conservative government spent Network North money on *roads* in London last year, *half* of the train services through our constituency were cancelled over a four hour
period.
@UKLabour will deliver a publicly owned railway that puts passengers first 👇
This morning Parliament’s own spending watchdog, the @NAOorguk, publishes a damning indictment of the government’s botched and flawed chidcare rollout.
As Labour has said all along, this was a pledge without a plan.
A thread: 🧵
Watchdog says only a third of local authorities are confident they will have enough places for September
Five things that would cost you less than what Rishi Sunak is spending to send one person to Rwanda 👇
What a great team on the doors in Cawthorne this morning out in support of John Roberts, our @UKLabour Party candidate in Penistone East on 2nd May.
Many former Conservative voters saying they won't be voting for them this time, the country needs change.
Gorgeous weather ...too!
Brilliant support on the doors in Chapeltown for Bridget Kelly - East Ecclesfield Campaigner this morning&in Stocksbridge for Mark Whittaker this afternoon, joined by @olivercoppard standing for re-election as our South Yorkshire @UKLabour Mayor.
#votelabour 2nd May
Blustery session in Deepcar this evening for our @UKLabour local election candidate, Mark Whittaker tonight. Lovely to have @DanJarvisMP 's company. Warm reception on the doors too. #votelabour2ndMay
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