Yesterday, I asked the Minister if she’d come to Stroud to join The Night Angels on one of their evening patrols and see the amazing work they do keeping our community safe.

Delighted to get the thumbs up and I look forward to welcoming her to Stroud!

Proud to support The Cotswold Canals Trust in gaining £6.4m of National Heritage funding to restore the 'Missing Mile'. Massive congratulations to all those involved especially the hard work of the volunteers who are at the heart of this operation.

The pensions industry in the UK is colossal - worth almost £3 trillion. But too much of that money is still flowing into the arms trade and fossil fuels industry. The Pension Schemes Bill offers us an opportunity to change this. (1/2)

The Renters Rights Act has gained Royal Assent meaning:
❌An end to no-fault evictions
❌An end to bidding wars
❌No more than 1 months rent upfront
❌Easier to challenge rent increases at tribunal
❌An end to fixed-term tenancies, giving you more flexibility
❌No blanket bans on pets

I wholeheartedly condemn the obvious racism in Reform and elsewhere.

But I also condemn the people who enable the racism, the people who legitimise it, and the people who look the other way because they cannot condemn it - because they use it themselves to legitimate their politics.

Through Gloucestershire’s NHS social prescribing network, local GPs, and clinicians are offering tickets directly to patients who may benefit most, turning conversation itself into a creative-health intervention.