Lara Chaplin

Labour activist, Union activist, lover of dogs and horses, runs at least a mile a day for over ten years. Likes cake, wine and chocolate. Owner of Fido Fun Farm

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@peter_levy @BBCLookNorth you fancy bringing the dogs? Located North Lincolnshire/Yorkshire border!

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

I was on Vanessa today!

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

Was on @TheVanessaFeltz today!

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@AndyBurnhamGM @Jenny_1884 I think he’s going to win.

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@KarlTurnerMP Hugs and best wishes x

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

Fancy swimming with your dogs?

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@MichaelLCrick @lowles_nick Absolutely awful comments. Is there any ists that he isn’t?

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@RosieDuffield1 @KarlTurnerMP I’m shocked at this. Karl is one of our best MPs. One of few who speak with conviction. You are too Rosie

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

Wow!!!!! @reformparty_uk is this why you want to scrap women’s rights/Equality legislation!

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

If this is all true, then Robert Kenyon, the Reform candidate in Makerfield, in clearly bonkers & deeply unpleasant, and it's no wonder he was Facebook friends with the self-declared fascist Gary Raikes. Reform's vetting processes seem about as effective as a chocolate teapot.

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@AndyBurnhamGM

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@AndyBurnhamGM not been this excited about the @UKLabour since 1997. As a woman, @reformparty_uk wanting to ditch the Equalities Act scares me to death! No good being able to define women if you don’t protect us. As a Northern woman seeing a northern person in charge!

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@KarlTurnerMP @samaritans Sending you solidarity and hugs Karl. Kettles always on.

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@KarlTurnerMP @samaritans Wow!!

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@KarlTurnerMP @AndyBurnhamGM Can I be a Lady please so I can be Education Secretary as I’ve liked Andy 4 ages. I am not an MP but did stand in Cheltenham our most unlikely seat to win in 2024 and Tewkesbury in 2019 and can make most excellent soup. Don’t think we’ve ever had a Northern Woman Edu Secretary.

[@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps]

🟣 MAKERFIELD: I suspect Robert Kenyon won't last long as Reform candidate. When Kenyon stood here in 2024, the anti-fascist group Searchlight tweeted he was Facebook friend of Gary Raikes, leader of New British Union, reincarnation of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@JonAshworth @NicDakin55 @NacoaUK As I sorry to hear you had a stroke. Good luck with the running x

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@NaomiSeibt Farage is lying

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

I’m backing #andyburnam #kingofthenorth

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.

Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.

Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.

However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.

Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.

I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.

Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.

ENDS

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@bphillipsonMP @UKLabour and yet…..

[Lara Chaplin @larachaplin]

@bphillipsonMP @KathrynDW59 You’ve decimated Higher Education. You not the Tories. I’ve voted Labour forever, I’ve stood 4 Parliament, I’ve even lent regional staff my house. You’re the first Education Secretary I’ve written to numerous times who hasn’t responded. By far the worst Education Secretary ever.