Cllr Anna Smith
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Cllr Anna Smith
@anna4labour.bsky.social
Coleridge Councillor, Deputy Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Labour.
Great to be at Number 10 today with other Labour mayoral candidates for the May elections. Working with our Labour Government, we want to deliver the change our communities deserve.

And yes, we got to meet @number10cat.bsky.social .
March 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wishing every blessing to all those across our region and beyond observing this special time of Ramadan.

#RamadanKareem #RamadanMubarak
February 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Team Coleridge celebrating Labour’s New Deal for Working People today.

✅ Putting more money in people’s pockets
✅ Guaranteeing parental leave from day one
✅ Ending exploitative zero-hours contracts
February 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Out in the sleet in West Chesterton this morning with city candidate, Rosy, county candidate, Jocelynne, and MP, Daniel Zeichner. Joined by local councillors, volunteers, and Eastern MPs @jackabbott.bsky.social and Bayo Alaba.

Thanks to everyone for coming.
February 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Good to be in Peterborough with @andrewpakes.bsky.social , talking about Labour’s plan to make work pay. Fantastic to be joined by @rokhsanafiaz.bsky.social, @jamesasser.bsky.social, local councillors, @unisoneastern.bsky.social, and volunteers from across our movement.
February 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Excellent visit to Peterborough Asda today with @andrewpakes.bsky.social, hearing from some fabulous apprentices, and talking about the ways in which the store seeks to support our community.

Especially good to be reminded that apprenticeships are for all, not just career starters.
February 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A pleasure to meet George on Friday, at the ground-breaking on our new @camcitco.bsky.social development at Fanshawe Road. George started with Hill as an apprentice and is now site manager. It was a great run up to #NationalApprenticeshipWeek to hear about the start an apprenticeship gave him.
February 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I’m a proud Labour and Cooperative councillor, so it was excellent to see the number of @coopparty.party.coop councillors and MPs at the @lgalabour.bsky.social conference, and to be able to give our support to Labour’s plans for community energy.

@tomhayesmp.bsky.social
@emmahoddinott.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An absolutely fantastic weekend at @lgalabour.bsky.social conference. Really good to catch up with wonderful local gvt colleagues and to hear from our front bench team. Especially good to talk to Angela Rayner about the opportunities greater devolution brings.
February 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
At today’s Cambs and Peterborough Combined Authority board, we voted by a clear majority to recommend bus franchising to @mayordrnik.bsky.social. We now await the Mayor’s decision.

Our residents, businesses, schools, and colleges want better buses. Franchising helps us achieve that. A historic day.
February 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Thrilled to be back in Leicester after my visit with @mayordrnik.bsky.social last year to look at the great work being done there.
February 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In Leicester today at the Campaigners Conference of @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social. V excited about hearing from so many people working hard to promote safer and easier active travel for all.
February 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Really good to hear Bridget Phillipson emphasising the important of careers guidance, skills and apprenticeships, and the power of second chances for learners in our education system.
January 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Stop press. 🚨

Delighted to report that the cross-party Combined Authority Transport and Infrastucture Committee, which I chair, voted unanimously to recommend bus franchising to @mayordrnik.bsky.social 🚌

63% of responses to the consultation were in favour.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Great morning in King’s Hedges, Cambridge, with Minister of State, Anneliese Dodds, Deputy Leader of Cambs County Council, Elisa Meschini, local councillors and activists. Talking about the £10 million our Labour Government has given to help fix potholes in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
January 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In Peterborough this morning, talking potholes with @andrewpakes.bsky.social. The Tories blamed local authorities but starved them of funds. The Labour Government has given Cambridgeshire and Peterborough an extra £10 million to fix potholes, which will help start putting things right.
January 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
All 5 Coleridge Labour councillors, both City and County, out and about this morning, despite the cold.

We knock on doors year round, not just at election time. It’s about picking up issues that need resolving for our residents and taking action.
January 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Wishing you a very happy 2025.

Thinking especially of those working tonight, and those worrying about what 2025 will bring.
December 31, 2024 at 11:36 PM
When local residents told us that having no bus meant dangerous walks along the A1, we acted. In the summer, Mayor Nik and I were able to travel with the campaigners on one of the first buses on the new CPCA-funded route from Peterborough to Stamford.

#AdventCalendar Day 17
December 17, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Day 16 of my #AdventCalendar. Joining Mayor Nik at the opening of the fantastic ARU Peterborough Living Lab, a partnership between ARU, The CPCA, Peterborough City Council and the Government. (And name-checked in today’s #devo White paper.)

www.aru.ac.uk/news/student...
December 16, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Day 14 of my #adventcalendar, and I’m with Mayor Dr Nik and Al Kingsley, chair of the Business Board, for the opening of Chatteris Museum, which the CPCA helped to fund.

The opening was such a fun day, made even better by having visited the site when it was being fitted out.

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December 14, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Day 11 of my #AdventCalendar. The huge privilege of attending the University Centre Peterborough graduation ceremony in September. So many successes to celebrate, and so moving to see the students cheered by staff and the local community as they processed to the cathedral.
December 11, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Which links me back to the lovely St Kyneburgha’s Castor event, back in April, raising money for the then Peterborough Mayor, @LibDemNick’s charities, including Magpas.
December 11, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Day 10 #AdventCalender is a double window. Celebrating the brilliant Magpas Air Ambulance charity, who were raising funds outside my local Co-op in Coleridge today.
December 11, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Day 9 of my #AdventCalendar is Ely in June, celebrating the centenary of the wonderful Cambridgeshire Acre. The Duke of Gloucester was joined by the Lord Lieutenant, and community representatives for a lovely celebration and a gorgeous cake.

www.cambsacre.org.uk/100-years-of...
December 9, 2024 at 9:58 PM