Andrew Pakes MP
@andrewpakes.bsky.social
Labour & Co-operative MP for Peterborough
🇦🇺 Australian War Memorial 🇦🇺
It was a privilege to pay my respects at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra today.
As we approach Remembrance Sunday I asked for time in my itinerary to pay my respects at the war memorial. It was a powerful tribute.
It was a privilege to pay my respects at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra today.
As we approach Remembrance Sunday I asked for time in my itinerary to pay my respects at the war memorial. It was a powerful tribute.
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
🇦🇺 Australian War Memorial 🇦🇺
It was a privilege to pay my respects at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra today.
As we approach Remembrance Sunday I asked for time in my itinerary to pay my respects at the war memorial. It was a powerful tribute.
It was a privilege to pay my respects at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra today.
As we approach Remembrance Sunday I asked for time in my itinerary to pay my respects at the war memorial. It was a powerful tribute.
It was a privilege to join representatives of our Jewish community & other faiths this evening at Peterborough Cathedral following the antisemitic terror attack on the synagogue in Manchester.
A powerful show of interfaith solidarity against hate & division 🙏
#BritainStandsTogether
A powerful show of interfaith solidarity against hate & division 🙏
#BritainStandsTogether
October 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It was a privilege to join representatives of our Jewish community & other faiths this evening at Peterborough Cathedral following the antisemitic terror attack on the synagogue in Manchester.
A powerful show of interfaith solidarity against hate & division 🙏
#BritainStandsTogether
A powerful show of interfaith solidarity against hate & division 🙏
#BritainStandsTogether
⭐️ Helping Sue Ryder ⭐️
We all love Sue Ryder in Peterborough and know how important they are to so many families.
So it was a pleasure to join the team at City of Peterborough Tennis Club again for their Sue Ryder fundraiser.
We all love Sue Ryder in Peterborough and know how important they are to so many families.
So it was a pleasure to join the team at City of Peterborough Tennis Club again for their Sue Ryder fundraiser.
August 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
⭐️ Helping Sue Ryder ⭐️
We all love Sue Ryder in Peterborough and know how important they are to so many families.
So it was a pleasure to join the team at City of Peterborough Tennis Club again for their Sue Ryder fundraiser.
We all love Sue Ryder in Peterborough and know how important they are to so many families.
So it was a pleasure to join the team at City of Peterborough Tennis Club again for their Sue Ryder fundraiser.
⭐️ Peterborough Lido ⭐️
It’s not all work no play. With friends in the city today, a visit to our Lido.
A jewel we need to celebrate - especially as it turns 90 next year.
🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊
It’s not all work no play. With friends in the city today, a visit to our Lido.
A jewel we need to celebrate - especially as it turns 90 next year.
🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊
August 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
⭐️ Peterborough Lido ⭐️
It’s not all work no play. With friends in the city today, a visit to our Lido.
A jewel we need to celebrate - especially as it turns 90 next year.
🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊
It’s not all work no play. With friends in the city today, a visit to our Lido.
A jewel we need to celebrate - especially as it turns 90 next year.
🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊
A well deserved win for Oakham Ales Green Devil at Peterborough Beer Festival today.
A pleasure to be part of the CAMRA judging panel.
Thanks to all the volunteers and brewers for another cracking day.
❤️💪🍺🙏🏴
@camraofficial.bsky.social
A pleasure to be part of the CAMRA judging panel.
Thanks to all the volunteers and brewers for another cracking day.
❤️💪🍺🙏🏴
@camraofficial.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A well deserved win for Oakham Ales Green Devil at Peterborough Beer Festival today.
A pleasure to be part of the CAMRA judging panel.
Thanks to all the volunteers and brewers for another cracking day.
❤️💪🍺🙏🏴
@camraofficial.bsky.social
A pleasure to be part of the CAMRA judging panel.
Thanks to all the volunteers and brewers for another cracking day.
❤️💪🍺🙏🏴
@camraofficial.bsky.social
Now here’s a Peterborough hero ❤️💪🙏
Always good to catch up with Cocoa Fowler from Food for Nought.
Cocoa is a tireless worker - alongside his other volunteers- helping to match up surplus food to foodbanks and those in need.
❤️💪🙏
Always good to catch up with Cocoa Fowler from Food for Nought.
Cocoa is a tireless worker - alongside his other volunteers- helping to match up surplus food to foodbanks and those in need.
❤️💪🙏
August 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Now here’s a Peterborough hero ❤️💪🙏
Always good to catch up with Cocoa Fowler from Food for Nought.
Cocoa is a tireless worker - alongside his other volunteers- helping to match up surplus food to foodbanks and those in need.
❤️💪🙏
Always good to catch up with Cocoa Fowler from Food for Nought.
Cocoa is a tireless worker - alongside his other volunteers- helping to match up surplus food to foodbanks and those in need.
❤️💪🙏
⭐️ VJ Day ⭐️
It was a privilege to join veterans, the Legion and civic leaders to commemorate VJ Day in Peterborough.
Thank you to everyone coming together to pay tribute to this remarkable generation and our veterans.
#VJDay
It was a privilege to join veterans, the Legion and civic leaders to commemorate VJ Day in Peterborough.
Thank you to everyone coming together to pay tribute to this remarkable generation and our veterans.
#VJDay
August 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
⭐️ VJ Day ⭐️
It was a privilege to join veterans, the Legion and civic leaders to commemorate VJ Day in Peterborough.
Thank you to everyone coming together to pay tribute to this remarkable generation and our veterans.
#VJDay
It was a privilege to join veterans, the Legion and civic leaders to commemorate VJ Day in Peterborough.
Thank you to everyone coming together to pay tribute to this remarkable generation and our veterans.
#VJDay
Good news ❤️🙏
I’m delighted that Laurel Court has received a funding boost from Historic England to help with the much-needed first steps in its restoration.
Well done to the Peterborough a Cathedral team ❤️🙏
I’m delighted that Laurel Court has received a funding boost from Historic England to help with the much-needed first steps in its restoration.
Well done to the Peterborough a Cathedral team ❤️🙏
August 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Good news ❤️🙏
I’m delighted that Laurel Court has received a funding boost from Historic England to help with the much-needed first steps in its restoration.
Well done to the Peterborough a Cathedral team ❤️🙏
I’m delighted that Laurel Court has received a funding boost from Historic England to help with the much-needed first steps in its restoration.
Well done to the Peterborough a Cathedral team ❤️🙏
⭐️ Great to see Peterborough will be 1 of 12 areas to share in £8 million initial funding to improve youth services ⭐️
This is about investing in youth services and making them better for young people.
This is about investing in youth services and making them better for young people.
August 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
⭐️ Great to see Peterborough will be 1 of 12 areas to share in £8 million initial funding to improve youth services ⭐️
This is about investing in youth services and making them better for young people.
This is about investing in youth services and making them better for young people.
⭐️ July casework ⭐️
We had a little less casework in July after an exceptionally busy June.
This gives a snapshot of one aspect of the work my team and I do. It is not all I do. These are the cases we pick up by email, on the phone and at my regular surgeries.
We had a little less casework in July after an exceptionally busy June.
This gives a snapshot of one aspect of the work my team and I do. It is not all I do. These are the cases we pick up by email, on the phone and at my regular surgeries.
August 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
⭐️ July casework ⭐️
We had a little less casework in July after an exceptionally busy June.
This gives a snapshot of one aspect of the work my team and I do. It is not all I do. These are the cases we pick up by email, on the phone and at my regular surgeries.
We had a little less casework in July after an exceptionally busy June.
This gives a snapshot of one aspect of the work my team and I do. It is not all I do. These are the cases we pick up by email, on the phone and at my regular surgeries.
A wet start to the day but a warm welcome to everyone who came to my latest coffee morning at the Chestnuts Centre today.
August 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A wet start to the day but a warm welcome to everyone who came to my latest coffee morning at the Chestnuts Centre today.
Great to join the team at Flag Fen. We are lucky to have such an archeological gem on our doorstep in Peterborough.
I also wanted to show my support after the event roundhouse fire.
See below for details of their crowdfunder 👇
Lots to see and do.
#Peterborough
☀️💪🙏❤️
I also wanted to show my support after the event roundhouse fire.
See below for details of their crowdfunder 👇
Lots to see and do.
#Peterborough
☀️💪🙏❤️
July 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Great to join the team at Flag Fen. We are lucky to have such an archeological gem on our doorstep in Peterborough.
I also wanted to show my support after the event roundhouse fire.
See below for details of their crowdfunder 👇
Lots to see and do.
#Peterborough
☀️💪🙏❤️
I also wanted to show my support after the event roundhouse fire.
See below for details of their crowdfunder 👇
Lots to see and do.
#Peterborough
☀️💪🙏❤️
⭐️ New gambling shop blocked ⭐️
Peterborough City Council has turned down the application to turn the former Wilko store into a gambling & fruit machine place.
This is good news for the city. A huge thank you to everyone who has been in touch with me about it.
Peterborough City Council has turned down the application to turn the former Wilko store into a gambling & fruit machine place.
This is good news for the city. A huge thank you to everyone who has been in touch with me about it.
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
⭐️ New gambling shop blocked ⭐️
Peterborough City Council has turned down the application to turn the former Wilko store into a gambling & fruit machine place.
This is good news for the city. A huge thank you to everyone who has been in touch with me about it.
Peterborough City Council has turned down the application to turn the former Wilko store into a gambling & fruit machine place.
This is good news for the city. A huge thank you to everyone who has been in touch with me about it.
⭐️ Bluebell coffee afternoon ⭐️
Thanks to everyone who came along to the first of our summer coffee & chat events at the Bluebell Community Centre.
Thanks also to this great team for helping the event to go smoothly. The NHS to antisocial behaviour to the Lido hot topics today.
Thanks to everyone who came along to the first of our summer coffee & chat events at the Bluebell Community Centre.
Thanks also to this great team for helping the event to go smoothly. The NHS to antisocial behaviour to the Lido hot topics today.
July 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
⭐️ Bluebell coffee afternoon ⭐️
Thanks to everyone who came along to the first of our summer coffee & chat events at the Bluebell Community Centre.
Thanks also to this great team for helping the event to go smoothly. The NHS to antisocial behaviour to the Lido hot topics today.
Thanks to everyone who came along to the first of our summer coffee & chat events at the Bluebell Community Centre.
Thanks also to this great team for helping the event to go smoothly. The NHS to antisocial behaviour to the Lido hot topics today.
Central Park paddling pool is finally open 💦🎉
Great to join the Mayor and councillors from across Peterborough for the official opening of Central Park paddling pool.
I love this being my local park ❤️🙏
Great to join the Mayor and councillors from across Peterborough for the official opening of Central Park paddling pool.
I love this being my local park ❤️🙏
July 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Central Park paddling pool is finally open 💦🎉
Great to join the Mayor and councillors from across Peterborough for the official opening of Central Park paddling pool.
I love this being my local park ❤️🙏
Great to join the Mayor and councillors from across Peterborough for the official opening of Central Park paddling pool.
I love this being my local park ❤️🙏
🚨 Police walkabout 🚨
Thanks to the local neighbourhood police team and Cllr Asif Shaheed for joining me in Itter Park this morning.
These kind of briefings are useful to me in representing local concerns and understanding issues from a police point of view.
Thanks to the local neighbourhood police team and Cllr Asif Shaheed for joining me in Itter Park this morning.
These kind of briefings are useful to me in representing local concerns and understanding issues from a police point of view.
July 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 Police walkabout 🚨
Thanks to the local neighbourhood police team and Cllr Asif Shaheed for joining me in Itter Park this morning.
These kind of briefings are useful to me in representing local concerns and understanding issues from a police point of view.
Thanks to the local neighbourhood police team and Cllr Asif Shaheed for joining me in Itter Park this morning.
These kind of briefings are useful to me in representing local concerns and understanding issues from a police point of view.
⭐️ Youth Guarantee ⭐️
Great to see extra helpers in place to support young people into work at City College Jobs Fair.
Peterborough is getting extra support from government to help get young people into education, training & work.
Great to see extra helpers in place to support young people into work at City College Jobs Fair.
Peterborough is getting extra support from government to help get young people into education, training & work.
July 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
⭐️ Youth Guarantee ⭐️
Great to see extra helpers in place to support young people into work at City College Jobs Fair.
Peterborough is getting extra support from government to help get young people into education, training & work.
Great to see extra helpers in place to support young people into work at City College Jobs Fair.
Peterborough is getting extra support from government to help get young people into education, training & work.
This is such a great picture.
It really shows the breadth of our community that came together today to celebrate Top Yard Boxing and Amir Khan.
❤️🙏💪🥊
Thanks to 203 Shots for the pic.
It really shows the breadth of our community that came together today to celebrate Top Yard Boxing and Amir Khan.
❤️🙏💪🥊
Thanks to 203 Shots for the pic.
July 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is such a great picture.
It really shows the breadth of our community that came together today to celebrate Top Yard Boxing and Amir Khan.
❤️🙏💪🥊
Thanks to 203 Shots for the pic.
It really shows the breadth of our community that came together today to celebrate Top Yard Boxing and Amir Khan.
❤️🙏💪🥊
Thanks to 203 Shots for the pic.
It was a pleasure to join Ukrainian friends for an evening at HELP recently.
The support we have shown for Ukraine both as a country and to families staying locally speaks to the best of Peterborough.
🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧
The support we have shown for Ukraine both as a country and to families staying locally speaks to the best of Peterborough.
🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧
July 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It was a pleasure to join Ukrainian friends for an evening at HELP recently.
The support we have shown for Ukraine both as a country and to families staying locally speaks to the best of Peterborough.
🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧
The support we have shown for Ukraine both as a country and to families staying locally speaks to the best of Peterborough.
🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧
I am passionate about apprenticeships.
So it was good to meet Waitrose staff in Peterborough to learn more about their training and apprenticeship opportunities.
As well as learning more about their brilliant work supporting local charities.
So it was good to meet Waitrose staff in Peterborough to learn more about their training and apprenticeship opportunities.
As well as learning more about their brilliant work supporting local charities.
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I am passionate about apprenticeships.
So it was good to meet Waitrose staff in Peterborough to learn more about their training and apprenticeship opportunities.
As well as learning more about their brilliant work supporting local charities.
So it was good to meet Waitrose staff in Peterborough to learn more about their training and apprenticeship opportunities.
As well as learning more about their brilliant work supporting local charities.
A good day for Peterborough 🙏
Today I joined the police to help launch two new neighbourhood teams💪
This is part of Labour’s Neighbourhood Police Guarantee which is bringing more officers to streets like ours.
Working together for change.
Today I joined the police to help launch two new neighbourhood teams💪
This is part of Labour’s Neighbourhood Police Guarantee which is bringing more officers to streets like ours.
Working together for change.
July 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A good day for Peterborough 🙏
Today I joined the police to help launch two new neighbourhood teams💪
This is part of Labour’s Neighbourhood Police Guarantee which is bringing more officers to streets like ours.
Working together for change.
Today I joined the police to help launch two new neighbourhood teams💪
This is part of Labour’s Neighbourhood Police Guarantee which is bringing more officers to streets like ours.
Working together for change.
The rapid uncontrolled growth of adult gaming centres says a lot about the decline of our high streets.
We need power to take back control and to update gambling rules.
@byrobdavies.bsky.social @theguardian.com
👉 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We need power to take back control and to update gambling rules.
@byrobdavies.bsky.social @theguardian.com
👉 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
July 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The rapid uncontrolled growth of adult gaming centres says a lot about the decline of our high streets.
We need power to take back control and to update gambling rules.
@byrobdavies.bsky.social @theguardian.com
👉 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We need power to take back control and to update gambling rules.
@byrobdavies.bsky.social @theguardian.com
👉 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We need more blue-collar Labour, less Blue Labour.
My take on why economic pride matters for @labourlist.bsky.social
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My take on why economic pride matters for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/07/comm...
Andrew Pakes MP: 'We need blue-collar Labour, not Blue Labour' - LabourList
Andrew Pakes argues for a skills revolution instead of social conservatism.
labourlist.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We need more blue-collar Labour, less Blue Labour.
My take on why economic pride matters for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/07/comm...
My take on why economic pride matters for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/07/comm...
It's #NationalRetailWorkersDay
There are 2.8 million jobs in retail, accounting for close to 10% of all jobs in the British economy.
Thanks to everyone stocking, serving & helping people in Peterborough. Thanks & respect.
@usdawunion.bsky.social
There are 2.8 million jobs in retail, accounting for close to 10% of all jobs in the British economy.
Thanks to everyone stocking, serving & helping people in Peterborough. Thanks & respect.
@usdawunion.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It's #NationalRetailWorkersDay
There are 2.8 million jobs in retail, accounting for close to 10% of all jobs in the British economy.
Thanks to everyone stocking, serving & helping people in Peterborough. Thanks & respect.
@usdawunion.bsky.social
There are 2.8 million jobs in retail, accounting for close to 10% of all jobs in the British economy.
Thanks to everyone stocking, serving & helping people in Peterborough. Thanks & respect.
@usdawunion.bsky.social