CEO @up_Reach; Co-Founder @TheTutorTrust; ex-Trustee @OasisAcademies; Advisory Board @ChildrensComm; former Labour SPAD (Tessa Jowell) & Parliamentary Candidate
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Thrilled and proud to have been awarded an MBE for 'Services to Education' in HM The King's 2026 Birthday Honours. It's a true joy and privilege to have the chance to make a difference with some superb teams. tinyurl.com/5n8y7598
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The 2026 Budget is here.
Supporting families.
Backing businesses.
Investing in Britain's future.
Strengthening our security.
Read the Budget in full.
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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100 days ago, I promised to do things differently.
From cutting everyday costs to handing power back to communities, change is already underway.
But I know there’s much more to do - this is just the beginning.
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The best player in the world.
Our 2026 #BallonDor winner: HARRY KANE! 🏴🏆
ALT Harry Kane wins the Ballon D'or
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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Last night, The Earthshot Prize took over The Graham Norton Show!
HRH Prince William joined @RobertIrwin, Cate Blanchett and @hanwaddingham to discuss the upcoming Awards Night in Mumbai and this year's incredible Finalists. Watch on @BBCiPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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I was pleased to contribute to the Bell review. School is where children should feel safest. But I was shocked by the abuse and antisemitism faced by Jewish children. The recommendations must lead to better protection for children and more support for teachers.
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Today I launch my landmark dataset: The Childhood Lottery.📍
Children feel it's harder to grow up in some places than others. Now I've brought together the evidence showing what a child’s experience is like in every postcode.
Full report👉🏼 childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
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Ahead of The Childhood Lottery publication tomorrow, @Rachel_deSouza tells @ObserverUK why childhood must be a national priority and why devolution must deliver for children in every postcode.
Full story 👇
observer.co.uk/news/national…
The Observer issue no. 12,254: The childhood lottery
Where you grow up really matters. From unsafe streets to failing schools, a groundbreaking study exposes the vast inequalities of childhood in England, prompting the children’s commissioner to declare a ‘national emergency’, by Rachel Sylvester.
Plus:
Observer Sport: 60 years on, Rugby remembers Aberfan
Heist at the museum in Observers needed
New Review: The great attention crisis. Have our phones rewired our brains?
Is Dad ready for the end of the world? How millennial fathers became the new kings of prepping in Obs Magazine
Pick up a copy today, available nationwide. Subscribe to get a copy of The Observer delivered right to your door every week - link in bio.
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A child’s postcode should never determine their life chances. 📍
Tomorrow I’ll publish by landmark report bringing together more than 160 measures to reveal how where children grow up shapes their lives, opportunities and access to support.
childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
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Join me at the launch of my forthcoming report, The Childhood Lottery: The hardest places to grow up in England.
🗓️Mon 19 Oct,
⏲️3-4:30pm
📍One Great George St, London SW1P 3AA
RSVP 👇🏼forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/…
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The Observer issue no. 12,254: The childhood lottery
Where you grow up really matters. From unsafe streets to failing schools, a groundbreaking study exposes the vast inequalities of childhood in England, prompting the children’s commissioner to declare a ‘national emergency’, by Rachel Sylvester.
Plus:
Observer Sport: 60 years on, Rugby remembers Aberfan
Heist at the museum in Observers needed
New Review: The great attention crisis. Have our phones rewired our brains?
Is Dad ready for the end of the world? How millennial fathers became the new kings of prepping in Obs Magazine
Pick up a copy today, available nationwide. Subscribe to get a copy of The Observer delivered right to your door every week - link in bio.
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Back from a successful trip to Washington to meet @SecWar.
The gravest dangers of the 20th century are returning, armed with the technologies of the 21st.
We need to strengthen our military capabilities, out-innovate and out-produce our adversaries, and strengthen our alliances.
No alliance in the world is as close as 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
We’ve never been content to merely watch history unfold. We’ve acted to determine its course.
When freedom and tyranny are in competition we stand for freedom.
We discussed the frontline for freedom in Ukraine, the threat posed by Iran, and our responsibility to strengthen European NATO in the face of Russian aggression.
The UK is the causeway across the Atlantic that binds together Europe and America.
In times of our greatest peril, we have shown ourselves capable of achieving great things. We still can.
We’re delivering the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War - a stronger Britain, in a stronger Europe, for a stronger NATO.
ALT Wes Streeting and Pete Hegseth, with delegation at the Pentagon
ALT Wes Streeting and Pete Hegseth outside of the Department of War with honour guard
ALT Wes Streeting delivering a speech to the CSIS
ALT Wes Streeting addressing Pete Hegseth across the meeting table
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On the fifth anniversary of the murder of my good friend Sir David Amess, killed doing his job as an MP, I'm thinking of his family. David was unfailingly kind & treated everyone equally. In our democracy, everyone should be able to go about their work without fear of violence.
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On behalf of the United Kingdom, we wish his Holiness Pope Leo XIV a successful surgery and a full and speedy recovery.
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What an incredible moment. And one of the greatest honours I’ve had in Parliament to walk in alongside @Sagal_AW today
A special thank you to all the Labour staff and volunteers who worked so hard to make it happen! 🌹
BREAKING: Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali has taken the oath of allegiance and been sworn in as an MP after winning last week's by-election in Holborn and St Pancras.
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Total support for this. There are plenty of things where we have healthy disagreement, but there are some core values - the things that define us as a country - that are under attack and unity is strength.
The strongest section of Kemi Badenoch's speech so far:
"To those who say “unite the right”... we are not uniting with THAT. I don’t want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, call veterans traitors and debate whether my mixed-race children are English.
"I don’t want to explain to my son, when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football, that some people don’t think our black players are English.
"I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing - nobody was questioning whether they were English. We certainly didn’t have sitting MPs questioning whether they were English.
"We must not let these people take us backwards. That is not the country we are. I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but I am black. I am British. I’m proud of my country, I’m proud of our history."
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Today marks three years since October 7th 2023 - the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
On that day, Hamas terrorists unleashed a wave of barbaric violence, murdering more than 1,200 innocent men, women and children, and taking 251 people hostage.
We remember all those murdered.
May their memory be a blessing.
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Three years on from the October 7 attacks on Israel, we remember those who were senselessly killed by Hamas terrorists.
The impact of the attacks has been felt not just in Israel, but in Jewish communities across the world who still bear the burden of the tragic events that day.
In the years since, we have seen a disturbing rise in antisemitic behaviour in the UK.
A year ago we witnessed a horrifying terrorist attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, with further attacks against Jewish people and institutions since.
I want Britain’s Jewish community to hear this from me directly. We stand with you. Abuse and violence against you, in any form, will not be tolerated. Not on our streets, not online, not in our schools or universities.
That’s why we are funding protection for synagogues, schools and community buildings, and why we will come down hard on antisemitism wherever it is found - in classrooms, on campuses and in neighbourhoods.
At home, we are committed to protecting our citizens from vile hatred. Abroad, we continue to work towards a two-state solution, with Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and security.
An attack on Jewish people in Britain is an attack on all of us. Antisemitism has no place in this country, and we will do everything we can to stamp it out.
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Today’s vote at the Green Party Conference crosses a line and is rightly being condemned across the political spectrum.
Labour will continue working to ensure Jewish communities are safe and have their rights upheld. We must rid our society of the scourge of antisemitism.