We've taken the West's new Growth Strategy to government. Since last week:
✅ £40m for Twerton & Hartcliffe
✅ £25m for our creative industries
✅ New town a step closer
✅ GWR set for public control
Together, we’ve turned the page and started a new chapter for our region.
"I want to put my experience to work for our community".
Read more from Helen Torrance, Labour's candidate for the Widcome & Lyncombe by-election on Thur 9 October, here: https://t.co/oX5U002eVc
We've spoken with dozens of residents in Widcome & Bear Flat already this week. Thank you to everyone sharing their thoughts on the community with our by-election candidate Helen Torrance
"I want to put my experience to work for our community".
Read more from Helen Torrance, Labour's candidate for the Widcome & Lyncombe by-election on Thur 9 October, here: https://t.co/oX5U002eVc
Our local team have been out in Widcombe & Bear Flat engaging with residents. We're always here to listen to what you want from your representatives
The Mayor's first 100 days, in under 100 seconds.
In this new chapter for the West, together we’re rolling out new green buses, have secured record transport funding, and launched a jobs and training Youth Guarantee.
We’ve turned the page, and we’re only just getting started!
🗞 The BBC reporting on our successful campaign for the "better provision of clean, accessible public toilets" in Bath.
Great to see the work of local Labour Councillors from @BNESLabourGroup recognised.
https://t.co/LZcqjxionk
Only 20 public loo sites for the whole of Bath & NE Somerset. Local? Ask your councillor if they're voting to sort out the out of date public loo strategy on Thu 17th. Contact them here - https://t.co/3AAni08OT2 and read the Labour Group motion here - https://t.co/gircWaRUf5
It’s Youth Employment Week!
We’re proud to be one of the 8 Youth Guarantee Trailblazer areas in the UK, supporting 18-21 year olds access apprenticeships, training and employment support. Every young person that takes part will receive a free bus pass to make sure transport isn’t a barrier.
Find out more: https://t.co/5zNf6IhtDH
A Spending Review that invests in Britain's renewal.
✅ A record cash investment in our NHS
✅ Free School Meals to lift 100,000 kids out of poverty
✅ Defence spending to rise to 2.6% of GDP by April 2027 to protect us in a changing world
Click the video to find out more.
The biggest investment in intra-city transport this country has ever seen.
Enabled by the pro-investment decisions taken by @RachelReevesMP.
A @UKLabour government delivering on the promise of change.
My statement today on our new £15.6bn Transport for City Regions Fund 👇
💷 £800 million of new funding
🚄 🚌 🚃 to improve public transport in the Bath-Bristol area
🤝 That's what a Labour Mayor working hand-in-hand with a Labour government delivers
Mayor Helen Godwin pledged to work with government and councils to get the West moving.
Three-quarters of a billion secured for transport will do just that, as we start a new chapter together: better buses, more trains, and mass transit.
Trams and much more are on the table!
This is staggering.
Real wages have grown more in the first 10 months of this Labour government than during the first ten years of Tory governments since 2010.
And not one apology from Conservative MPs for the mess they left us in today - shameful.