Jon Trickett MP

Labour MP. From Great County of Yorkshire. Former Leader of Leeds Council. Retweets past & present don’t reflect my own views.

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It’s Yorkshire Day!!

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Happy Yorkshire Day everyone!

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Starting tomorrow, children and young people aged 5-15 can travel for free on buses all August.

[PHANS Festival @PHANS_Festival]

100 years on, the spirit of solidarity lives on. ✊
Join us at the 4th Potteries Chartists Festival to commemorate the 1926 General Strike with music, theatre, film, poetry, exhibitions & workshops
📆 Sun 16 Aug 11–4 Market Place, Burslem
FREE • ALL WELCOME

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35,000 back call for Andy Burnham to reinstate Diane Abbott 🌹

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[Brian Leishman @BrianLeishmanMP]

In today’s @Sunday_Mail read about how the SNP have treated our colleges with utter contempt and the fight to save the Alloa Campus of Forth Valley College goes on.

Our lecturers and students deserve much better than what this SNP government gives them.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

Burnham deserves credit for acknowledging that Britain has been going in the wrong direction for 40+ years since Thatcher.If his politics of place, solidarity & active government are able to take shape, our country has a chance of revival. @Tribunemagazine
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[caroline wheeler @cazjwheeler]

Exclusive: A senior Labour backbencher has called on Andy Burnham to cull ministers from Sir Keir Starmer’s government, arguing that only a “real change at the top of government” can deliver the new politics that has been promised.

Jon Trickett has issued a dramatic challenge to Burnham on the eve of his coronation as Labour leader, arguing that he must not simply reshuffle ministers who embodied Starmer’s approach, but instead install a new leadership team capable of delivering a fundamentally different political project.

His intervention comes as Burnham prepares to appoint his first cabinet next week. The i Paper exclusively revealed yesterday that Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, is currently in poll position to become his chancellor – amid claims he has passed over Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, who was the early front-runner to take over the Treasury. Instead, Miliband is now tipped for a move to the Foreign Office.

Other members of Starmer’s current Cabinet expected to be given jobs include Lucy Powell, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting and Rachel Reeves, who is widely expected to see her job as chancellor downgraded to a lesser cabinet role.

The expected appointment of Mahmood to the Treasury has already sparked a backlash among some within the Parliamentary Labour Party, who see her as too right-wing.

[Strike Map @strike_map]

NEW 🚨| 22 trade union leaders, representing more than 1.3 million workers, are calling on @RockstarGames to stop playing games with workers' rights and recognise the @IWGB_GW.

Read, like and share the letter below 👇

#Solidarity #StrikeMap

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[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

I expect the law to take a very tough line with sex offenders and child abusers. Convicted offenders should serve long sentences.
Of course the last Tory govt disgracefully failed to build enough prison places but early release of these criminals shouldn’t be happening.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

Capita’s administration of the civil service pension scheme has been a disaster.

Thousands of retired civil servants have missed out on payments and some have experienced financial crisis. Another outsourcing failure.

I support @pcs_union’s call to bring it back in-house.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

I support this petition: https://t.co/rxHnL9JveW

[Brian Leishman @BrianLeishmanMP]

Instead of war, let’s have an agenda for health, education, public services, people and communities.

Let’s have a social security system that stops people falling into poverty.

If there’s money to be found for killing people, then there is money to be found for saving people.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

@pauleholden Definitely worth a follow for Steve Howell

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

Royal Mail should be a public service. But it's parent company is paying out nearly £7 million a year to its CEO. At the same time I am told by many constituents that the service locally is failing badly. How can that be right? I raised this issue in the Commons.

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We must put an end to the days of multinational companies sacking trade union members.

The government must make sure that every worker is free to join a trade union without fear of sanction, and that every employer recognises the trade unions active in their workplace.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

I was delighted to open the new banking hub in Normanton earlier on. Many constituents have expressed difficulties with accessing banking services. This is a positive step forwards.

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

Royal Mail should be a public service. But it's parent company is paying out nearly £7 million a year to its CEO. At the same time I am told by many constituents that the service locally is failing badly. How can that be right? I raised this issue in the Commons.