Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP

Member of Parliament for Streatham (and parts of Balham, Clapham Common, Tulse Hill and Brixton Hill)
Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Clapham & Brixton Hill

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Members Report: October 2021

Members Report: October 2021

Nov 1, 2021 |

October was Black History Month and I was proud to secure a debate on the topic in Parliament, where I called on the government to follow Welsh Labour’s excellent example of teaching a properly integrated curriculum that sees students studying Black history year round. This year’s theme was Proud to Be and I paid tribute to the many trailblazing Black Britons who laid the pathway for a more equal future: from Yvonne Conolly, the UK’s first black headteacher; to C. L. R. James, the prolific writer; to William Cuffay, the Chartist leader and Diane Abbott, the first Black woman elected to Parliament.

Members Report: September 2021

Members Report: September 2021

Oct 1, 2021 |

This is the worst Government in living memory and it’s absolutely crucial that we hold them to account for the crises we are now facing: from the emergency in our NHS to the energy and Brexit-related supply shortages that are pushing prices up and even leaving people struggling to get hold of basics like petrol.

Members Report: August 2021

Members Report: August 2021

Sep 1, 2021 |

In all the years I knew her, Maxine made it her life’s work to challenge racial inequality Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she joined her family in England at the age of 12, living in Birmingham and attending school there before moving to work in London. In 1983, she...

Members Report: July 2021

Members Report: July 2021

Aug 1, 2021 |

The UK faces a post-covid unemployment crisis with insecurity and low-pay rife for workers. Intensifying climate and environmental breakdown bring devastating threats to public health and livelihoods.

Members Report: June 2021

Members Report: June 2021

Jul 1, 2021 |

The Tories have refused to accept that you can’t have a healthy economy without a healthy population. By letting cases rise and lifting baseline restrictions, the Tories are choosing to run the NHS into the ground – just as they have done throughout the pandemic. With the treatment backlog already ballooning, hospitalisations still on the rise, and the growing evidence about the devastating impact of Long Covid, I fear that the long-term costs of this will be horrendous.

Members Report: May 2021

Members Report: May 2021

Jun 1, 2021 |

Child poverty in Streatham now stands at 37% after a decade of out-of-control housing costs, increasingly insecure work, and a decade of punitive welfare policies. Rather than coming up with a plan to address the sheer scale of unmet social need in the UK, the Tories are instead shoring up their own grip on power and moving against some of the progressive social movements that have highlighted these injustices. As the UK begins to come out of the pandemic, we need to keep up the momentum that forced the Tories to stall their Police Crackdown Bill in the last Parliament and offer voters a message of hope and transformation.