Welcome to my August newsletter!

Parliament has been in summer recess since the end of July and will return on 2nd September. Recess enables MPs to spend more time in our constituencies, meeting constituents and organisations in our community, an opportunity I am grateful for.

This is my first article in the Stockport Express since my re-election as the Member of Parliament for Stockport in the General Election on 4th July.

This is my first newsletter since my re-election as the Member of Parliament for Stockport in the General Election on 4th July.

I am deeply humbled and profoundly grateful to have been re-elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Stockport, with an increased majority of 15,270.

The Conservatives cannot be trusted with the NHS. Every time they are in government, they run our health service into the ground, dragging down standards and pushing up waiting times to record highs. As the graph below shows, this is truer in 2024 than ever before, despite the hard work of NHS staff.