Delighted to have secured the confidence of MPs across The House & to have been elected as The Chairman of Ways & Means, Deputy Speaker of @HouseofCommons.
I’m honoured to have made a bit of 🇬🇧 history as the first ethnic minority MP to serve in The Chair & I hope it inspires the next generation of women.
Looking forward to working with colleagues & @CommonsSpeaker on Parliamentary integrity, security & impartiality🤝🏽
🎓Another fantastic result for Crowborough as we've secured £500,000 for @Beacon_Academy from @educationgovuk's Condition Improvement Fund👏🏽
Thrilled to have helped @MARK_EdTrust deliver this funding boost, which builds on our previously secured grants of:
✅£1.3 million in 2021
✅£1.5 million in 2023
✅Further funding in 2024
To mark Srebrenica Memorial Day 2026, I signed the Book of Remembrance in Westminster this week, honouring the memory of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys murdered in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995. We must never forget them.
@srebrenicaUK#RememberingSrebrenica #Srebrenica31
🗓️ Today is Srebrenica Memorial Day, marking 31 years since the Bosnian genocide in July 1995.
As @FCDOGovUK Minister, I visited Bosnia in 2024 & met the brave surviving women who still await justice.
It is important we continue remembering & honouring the many victims of what has been described by the United Nations as the ‘worst crime on European soil since the Second World War’.
#SrebrenicaMemorialDay #RememberingSrebrenica
@SrebrenicaUK@SrebrenicaMC
Ann Widdecombe was a formidable politician who was never afraid to speak her mind and fought hard for what she believed.
Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones at this heartbreaking time.
Rest in peace, Ann.
🎈A pleasure to join @GylesB1 & @Ashdown_Forest CEO, staff & volunteers, in welcoming Her Majesty The Queen to 'The Hundred Acre Wood' to mark the 100th birthday of Sussex Weald's most famous resident & global icon, Winnie-the-Pooh🍯
Her Majesty also unveiled a new all-weather trail named ‘Queen’s Walk’, which will ensure that everyone can spend time in this magical landscape & discover its treasures🌳
Very useful to hear an update on rural crime from @sussex_police at our roundtable with @Nus_Ghani MP.
We're pleased that all call handlers now receive rural crime training, refreshed regularly.
We'd urge everyone to report each and every incident @CLAtweets@SussexPCC
Prayers with the victims of what is being reported as targeted anti muslim violence in Edinburgh.
Anti-terrorism police are involved- this anti-muslim violence doesn’t exist in a vacuum and shamefully its on the rise.
It’s not who we are as a country where there should be no place for faith based hatred.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested after a series of violent attacks across Edinburgh, appearing to target Muslims, which left five people injured.
Sky's Phoebe Southworth reports.
https://t.co/f6CKY2c2bl
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Very scary situation for Muslims in Scotland - my thoughts and prayers are with those that are injured and their families.
Those that use violence and extremism, whoever they are, can never be allowed to succeed.
I’ve just presented my world-first Babies Bill to the Commons.
The evidence is clear just how vital a baby’s first 1001 critical days from pregnancy to age two are.
I hope that over the next few months I can unite the whole House around such a crucial cause.
Yesterday I had one of the greatest privileges - presenting my Babies Bill to the House
The evidence is clear just how vital a baby’s first 1001 critical days from pregnancy to age two are
I hope that on the 4th September, the whole House can unite around such a crucial cause