On Holocaust Memorial Day, we recommit to stamping out antisemitism and racism wherever they rear their heads. We remember and reflect on some of the most horrendous and atrocious acts committed by mankind. We remember the six million Jews and all the people murdered and persecuted during the Holocaust and later genocides in Rwanda, Darfur, Cambodia and Bosnia.
The Government is currently spending the majority of its Affordable Homes Programme funding on homes that are nothing of the kind.
I voted to throw out the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill at Second Reading. Rather than creating a fair and humane asylum system, the Tories are punishing people who come here seeking safety and exposing them to further risk of exploitation and human rights violations.
The Prime Minister personally negotiated the Northern Ireland Protocol. Now the Government is threatening to tear it up.
How are the Tories celebrating the NHS’s 73rd birthday this month? By introducing a Bill that undermines its foundations: increasing privatisation, putting private companies at the heart of NHS management and paving the way to sell off our health data.
The Tories’ Higher Education (Free Speech) Bill is nothing of the sort. It tramples on students unions’ autonomy, overturns long-standing no-platform policies, narrows the legal definition of academic freedoms and fails to address real threats to campus free speech: the ever-failing Prevent duty, casualised employment, insecure research funding and, of course, the Government.