News Archive
Meg's Weekly Round-Up: Friday 27 May 2022
Friday, 27 May 2022
The Sue Gray report was published in full this week. It makes for damning reading as it outlines in detail the boozing and partying at multiple parties in the heart of government during lockdown. It concludes that both the political and official senior leadership must take responsibility for the partying…
Meg's racial justice parliamentary update
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
It is two years since the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed. See below for an update on my work in fighting for racial justice.
Child Q I was appalled to read the City & Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership’s review into the incident with Child…
Meg's Weekly round-up: Friday 20 May 2022
Friday, 20 May 2022
Figures released this week show inflation reaching nine per cent in April whilst for the poorest household this figure is closer to eleven per cent. This means the price of weekly essentials (like food, energy, and transport) is going up, hitting the poorest households the hardest. Already one-in-two Hackney children…
Meg presses the Government to ban all forms of conversion therapy
Thursday, 19 May 2022
After much delay, the Government has announced plans to introduce legislation to ban conversion therapy. However, it has confirmed that trans conversion therapy will not be included in the ban. Any form of therapy to convert people away from being who they are, whether they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans,…
The Big plastic count
Monday, 16 May 2022
The Big Plastic Count kicks off today. Join me and take part in the UK’s biggest ever investigation into plastic waste.
The UK produces more plastic waste per person than almost any other country in the world (only the US is worse). If things do not improve, then the global amount…