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People need a safe, secure and long-term home as the foundation for their life and the springboard for opportunity.

That means home ownership must not be an out of reach dream for people in Hackney.

And it means better rights and stability for private tenants.

At my surgeries I am constantly seeing the effects of our shortage in housing. Despite the Mayor of Hackney building as many council homes as he can, we are now seeing people being sent as far away as Peterborough for temporary accommodation. The Government has missed every target it set…

Read my Monthly Report for March 2023 here. 

The backlogs in the Home Office are the worst I’ve seen in my 18 years as MP.

The Immigration Minister needs to get a grip

The Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, sexist, and homophobic. These are the findings of an independent review by Baroness Louise Casey – commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of a serving Metropolitan police constable. But for many in Hackney, these findings will come as no surprise. It…