Antonia Bance MP
@antoniabance.bsky.social
Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama.
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Hi, I’m Antonia Bance, Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley.
Legals: promoted by Ashley Lewis on behalf of Antonia Bance, both at Terry Duffy House, 1 Thomas St, West Bromwich, B70 6NT
Legals: promoted by Ashley Lewis on behalf of Antonia Bance, both at Terry Duffy House, 1 Thomas St, West Bromwich, B70 6NT
Longtime followers across multiple platforms will know that my hatred of mythbusting (and disdain for those that engage in this ineffective communications practice that strengthens the myth rather than the bust) far far predates me being in my current job
August 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Longtime followers across multiple platforms will know that my hatred of mythbusting (and disdain for those that engage in this ineffective communications practice that strengthens the myth rather than the bust) far far predates me being in my current job
Great to see colleagues taking the fight to Reform. Keeping our children safe online is worth doing - and worth a small inconvenience to adults. This is what it means to live in a society.
My piece for The Telegraph about online safety
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
August 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Great to see colleagues taking the fight to Reform. Keeping our children safe online is worth doing - and worth a small inconvenience to adults. This is what it means to live in a society.
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The end point of a highly speculative housing system is lower quality of working life in construction. Yet another reason for a more strategic approach to housebuilding, including an expanded state sector- to help create more stable career paths in construction.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Construction should be a career that you can build a life on | Letters
Letters: Matthew Ord says pay insecurity pushes many skilled people out of construction entirely, while Stuart Green notes that career paths only exist in sheltered pockets. Plus a letter from Mark St...
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The end point of a highly speculative housing system is lower quality of working life in construction. Yet another reason for a more strategic approach to housebuilding, including an expanded state sector- to help create more stable career paths in construction.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Taking the fight to Reform. They don’t care about women’s safety.
Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act
Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act
Deputy PM says move would cause rise in ‘revenge porn’, as Labour launches attack ads against Reform UK leader
Nigel Farage is “failing a generation of young women” with his plans to scrap the Online Safety Act, Angela Rayner has said, arguing the move would cause an increase in the prevalence of “revenge porn”.
The comments by the deputy prime minister are the latest criticism of Farage from the government, with Labour launching a parallel series of attack adverts on the Reform UK leader, including one showing him alongside the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Taking the fight to Reform. They don’t care about women’s safety.
Reposted by Antonia Bance MP
Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act
Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act
Deputy PM says move would cause rise in ‘revenge porn’, as Labour launches attack ads against Reform UK leader
Nigel Farage is “failing a generation of young women” with his plans to scrap the Online Safety Act, Angela Rayner has said, arguing the move would cause an increase in the prevalence of “revenge porn”.
The comments by the deputy prime minister are the latest criticism of Farage from the government, with Labour launching a parallel series of attack adverts on the Reform UK leader, including one showing him alongside the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act
I am so proud of what our PM is doing and the role he plays on the world stage
NEW: Downing St confirms that Keir Starmer will join President Zelensky and other European leaders at a meetings with President Trump in Washington tomorrow.
August 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I am so proud of what our PM is doing and the role he plays on the world stage
"Anyone who wants to protest against the catastrophic humanitarian situation and crimes against humanity in Gaza, to oppose Israel's military offensive, or to criticise the actions of any and every government, including our own, has the freedom to do so [...] to claim otherwise is nonsense"
Yvette Cooper: ‘Palestine Action’s violent criminality is...
Demonstrating is vital to free speech but this right does not extend to violence, intimidation and inflicting injuries
observer.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"Anyone who wants to protest against the catastrophic humanitarian situation and crimes against humanity in Gaza, to oppose Israel's military offensive, or to criticise the actions of any and every government, including our own, has the freedom to do so [...] to claim otherwise is nonsense"
Love recess. This week have visited an AMAZING world-leading demonstrator for turning waste into sustainable aviation fuel and other fuels, which will go to operations this autumn with 40 (40!) jobs incl apprenticeships, supported by a £4m government grant - and it’s in central Wednesbury 😍
August 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love recess. This week have visited an AMAZING world-leading demonstrator for turning waste into sustainable aviation fuel and other fuels, which will go to operations this autumn with 40 (40!) jobs incl apprenticeships, supported by a £4m government grant - and it’s in central Wednesbury 😍
Absolutely no need for anyone to pay any attention to Lord Glasman. No, this isn’t a Blue Labour government, and no, he isn’t some sort of guru to No 10. Thanks.
August 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Absolutely no need for anyone to pay any attention to Lord Glasman. No, this isn’t a Blue Labour government, and no, he isn’t some sort of guru to No 10. Thanks.
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Lots of food for thought in this note about the risk of scrapping BTECs (a policy decision that doesn't get discussed enough imo).
It includes this great stat: a quarter of students now enter university with BTEC qualifications rather than A Levels etc!
www.sixthformcolleges.org/380/news-and...
It includes this great stat: a quarter of students now enter university with BTEC qualifications rather than A Levels etc!
www.sixthformcolleges.org/380/news-and...
Scrapping BTEC qualifications will lead to “qualifications gap” in key sectors, report finds
A new report has found that the government’s plan to scrap applied general qualifications (AGQs) such as BTECs, in order to direct more 16- to 1...
www.sixthformcolleges.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Lots of food for thought in this note about the risk of scrapping BTECs (a policy decision that doesn't get discussed enough imo).
It includes this great stat: a quarter of students now enter university with BTEC qualifications rather than A Levels etc!
www.sixthformcolleges.org/380/news-and...
It includes this great stat: a quarter of students now enter university with BTEC qualifications rather than A Levels etc!
www.sixthformcolleges.org/380/news-and...
This team. This manager. 💙❤️
August 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This team. This manager. 💙❤️
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Sam allowed a told-you-so moment as he explains why the VAT changes did not lead to a collapse in the private education sector and what other pressure groups might learn from the experience. samf.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great VAT Panic
Or how not to run a campaign
samf.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Sam allowed a told-you-so moment as he explains why the VAT changes did not lead to a collapse in the private education sector and what other pressure groups might learn from the experience. samf.substack.com/p/the-great-...
We should be so proud to have an education secretary whose purpose shines through everything she does, who remembers the free school meals kid she was, who believes every child matters, and who acts on it
These kids would quietly have been written off, and it would have blighted their lives. But they haven’t been. Thanks to ministers and teachers and parents who didn’t give up on them.
Together we’re turning the tide on the absence crisis among our kids.
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
August 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We should be so proud to have an education secretary whose purpose shines through everything she does, who remembers the free school meals kid she was, who believes every child matters, and who acts on it
These kids would quietly have been written off, and it would have blighted their lives. But they haven’t been. Thanks to ministers and teachers and parents who didn’t give up on them.
Together we’re turning the tide on the absence crisis among our kids.
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Record attendance gains unlock over £2bn in future earnings
School attendance in England has surged, with 5 million more days in classrooms and 140,000 fewer persistently absent pupils
www.gov.uk
August 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
These kids would quietly have been written off, and it would have blighted their lives. But they haven’t been. Thanks to ministers and teachers and parents who didn’t give up on them.
Reposted by Antonia Bance MP
Together we’re turning the tide on the absence crisis among our kids.
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Record attendance gains unlock over £2bn in future earnings
School attendance in England has surged, with 5 million more days in classrooms and 140,000 fewer persistently absent pupils
www.gov.uk
August 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Together we’re turning the tide on the absence crisis among our kids.
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Five million more days in school is the biggest improvement in a decade.
I want to thank not just the parents but the school leaders, teachers & support staff who’ve made this happen.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
One of the best things about this job is getting to call up a manufacturing biz and just ask to come in and see what they make and how they make it and ask 1001 questions (here with Nirmal at Bodill Parker in Tipton looking at their brass and steel eyelets and washers)
August 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
One of the best things about this job is getting to call up a manufacturing biz and just ask to come in and see what they make and how they make it and ask 1001 questions (here with Nirmal at Bodill Parker in Tipton looking at their brass and steel eyelets and washers)
I’ll take a bet on this. The hollowing out of direct employment in so many sectors in favour of so-called self employment cannot be allowed to stand in terms of worker security and tax take as well as illegal working
Follow the prime minister’s rhetoric about building a high-wage, high-security, low migration labour market to its logical conclusion, and Deliveroo as we know it would surely die. It probably won’t.
Starmer versus the burrito taxi
economist.com/britain/2025...
Starmer versus the burrito taxi
economist.com/britain/2025...
Starmer versus the burrito taxi
If Sir Keir Starmer means what he says about labour rules, Deliveroo is in trouble. Does he?
economist.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’ll take a bet on this. The hollowing out of direct employment in so many sectors in favour of so-called self employment cannot be allowed to stand in terms of worker security and tax take as well as illegal working
Every second child in my constituency. Every second child.
The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty | Gordon Brown
The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty | Gordon Brown
New thinking is urgent now. I have not seen such deep poverty since I grew up in a mining and textiles town blighted by unemployment, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Every second child in my constituency. Every second child.
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30 hours of government-funded childcare from September, saving parents up to £7,500 a year.
opening a new wave of school-based nursery provision this autumn
two million breakfasts in new free breakfast clubs,
lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.
Better with Labour 👍
opening a new wave of school-based nursery provision this autumn
two million breakfasts in new free breakfast clubs,
lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.
Better with Labour 👍
August 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
30 hours of government-funded childcare from September, saving parents up to £7,500 a year.
opening a new wave of school-based nursery provision this autumn
two million breakfasts in new free breakfast clubs,
lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.
Better with Labour 👍
opening a new wave of school-based nursery provision this autumn
two million breakfasts in new free breakfast clubs,
lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.
Better with Labour 👍
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Jess Phillips intervenes to protect families from mass shootings in domestic violence situations.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
August 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Jess Phillips intervenes to protect families from mass shootings in domestic violence situations.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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“It may turn out that liberalism needed some restraints to survive” @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
August 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“It may turn out that liberalism needed some restraints to survive” @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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3) First car models approved for £1,500 discount to turbocharge the move to electric
First car models approved for £1,500 discount to turbocharge the move to electric
The Electric Car Grant will make owning an electric car cheaper, easier and a reality for thousands more people across the UK.
www.gov.uk
August 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
3) First car models approved for £1,500 discount to turbocharge the move to electric
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2) Discriminatory age bands to be removed as new Low Pay Commission remit delivers progress towards a single wage rate for adults.
Government moves to end discriminatory age bands and unfair pay
The Government’s manifesto commitment to deliver a genuine living wage for working people took a step closer today as it set out new considerations for the Low Pay Commission when recommending next ye...
www.gov.uk
August 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
2) Discriminatory age bands to be removed as new Low Pay Commission remit delivers progress towards a single wage rate for adults.