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I’m continuing to receive an unprecedented number of emails supporting Black Lives Matter. Thank you. We need to turn this anger into action and I look forward to working with you on how to create lasting and meaningful change.

Baroness Doreen Lawrence has been asked to lead a review on…

This is a difficult time for many people living in Hackney. However, there is support available to you. This is a quick changing situation and I will keep the below links updated. Please remember my office remains open so please email meg.hillier.mp@parliament.uk if you need any assistance. 

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The Government needs to step up and radically improve the test, track and trace system. 

Hackney Council is a pioneer borough piloting localised tracking and tracing, but it is not getting the data it needs from the central system. If someone is tracked as having been close to an infected…

The Government is failing vulnerable children with no proper plan for schools and pupils.

There's no catch-up plan. It beggars belief that there was no planning in place. The Education Secretary is asleep on the job.

The Government cannot just give up on supporting vulnerable children and their families in…

The scenes from the US and the outrageously racially divisive approach of Donald Trump are very distressing. I'm backing Dawn Butler MP's call to end the export of riot gear to the US.

And in the UK the sense of anger and frustration is immense. When you are stopped and…