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Yesterday I was delighted to officially open LaunchPad Labs, a new non-for-profit start-up incubator based in the heart of Tech City.

LaunchPad Labs aims to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into business by offering access to heavily subsidised co-working space, an extensive on-demand mentoring scheme delivered by entrepreneurs, and…

Parliamentary Business

Nigeria abductions

As I write, the school girls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok are still separated from their families.

As chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Nigeria I hosted a meeting in Parliament. The Nigerian High Commission sent a representative and he was pressed about…

Last week I pressed the Deputy Prime Minister on the lack of superfast broadband in Hackney. A third of businesses in Shoreditch do not have access to it and that simply isn’t good enough.

Yesterday I wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister to lay out in detail my concerns about…

Yesterday, The Guardian published my article about how the could be doing more to empower patients.

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Please follow the link to my issues page to read my article on the future of the Co-op.

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