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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill

"On this island, citizenship is an idea still in its infancy. When Great Britain was forged in the Acts of Union in 1707, British people were not citizens, but subjects, equals by virtue of their relationship to the monarch. Only with the British Nationality Act 1948 was the concept of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill

"The right hon. Member is portraying the United Kingdom as an exception to a global rule in which citizenship is a straightforward binary and a right. I am of Jewish ancestry and have a right to claim citizenship in Israel, though I have not. My wife is American and our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"6. What steps she is taking to support people on universal credit into work. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Last week, I held an emergency community meeting for 250 workers in my constituency who are about to lose their jobs following the closure of the electric fibreglass site in Hindley Green. It was heartbreaking. Some families have three generations of workers who have powered the blast furnace and produced …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"As a boy, Billy Boston dreamed of playing rugby union for Wales and for Cardiff, but he was never selected because he was black. Wigan and rugby league welcomed him with open arms. Rugby league has always been a sport that champions equality; it was created by working-class men who …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 May 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"2. What steps she is taking to support young people into employment, education or training in Makerfield constituency. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 May 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"In the towns I represent, the largest type of private employment is the trades. Bricklayers, plumbers, electricians—these are the people who build our nation’s future and on whom our future security and prosperity depend. They are the working people the Labour party was created to represent. What is the Minister …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Apr 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q5.   For years, my constituents in Orrell have suffered from a lack of local health provision, but next month that will begin to change, thanks to a new partnership that I have built with our local NHS, Wigan Athletic and Wigan Warriors at a centre for excellence in women’s sport. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Apr 2025
School-based Nursery Capital Grants

"After a night of little sleep, I am feeling something that many have said in this Chamber before: being a parent in this country is too exhausting and too expensive. That is why on Friday I am hosting a coffee morning targeted at dads, with former Wigan Warriors players and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Mar 2025
Grassroots Rugby League

"I thank my hon. Friend for securing this debate. One of the rugby players most embedded in the community in my patch is Billy Boston. Local councillors in my patch have started a petition to secure Billy Boston a knighthood. Does my hon. Friend agree with me that in general, …..."
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