I was pleased to take part in a training event at Portsmouth's Anglican cathedral on Saturday looking at modern slavery. Slavery is still a big problem in the world, and in first world countries where people come here, or are brought here by traffickers, and end up in conditions of slavery.
Like many people around Portsmouth, I was surprised to read yesterday's report from the National Audit Office criticising the arrangements being made in our Naval Base for the new aircraft carriers.
The judgement from the High Court today was clear and now it is for the Government to respond.
Much will be made on what this means over the next few days but, for me, there are simply two issues here: Brexit supporters have to respect the judgement and the rule of law, while Remainers must respect
This is a piece I've written for today's Daily Mail about the referendum and its aftermath:
I voted to remain because you are always better off at the top table and the UK is a leader in Europe.
The Prime Minister was absolutely right to say outside the door of 10 Downing Street that “If you’re a white working-class boy you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university.”
If we want this to change, we have to go right back to the beginning.
Portsmouth is encouraging firms to hire disabled jobseekers. The event is part of the Government’s Disability Confident campaign – working with employers to recruit and retain more disabled people.
With my colleague and co-chair of the All-party Women and Work Group in Parliament, Jess Phillips, I have written a piece for Stylist magazine which looks at some of the challenges, and indeed attacks, which women MPs have to face.
"What happens to female politicians does have an impact on wider so
