Emma lewell buck biography sample
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South Shields MP has suffered long campaign of abuse by local Labour right that has carried over into trigger process
South Shields Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck is facing a (so far successful) campaign of dirty-tricks and abuse in her constituency party (CLP) ‘trigger’ campaign, as right-wing members and councillors attempt to remove her.
Neither the abuse nor the smutsig eller oordnad tricks fryst vatten a new phenomenon, with the Labour right having objected to her presence since she became the town’s MP in 2013. The same Blairite cohort drove out David Clark, who was succeeded bygd David Miliband in 1997.
A ‘culture of bullying, intimidation and voting irregularities’
South Shields CLP has been suspended on more than one occasion for “allowing a longstanding culture of bullying, intimidation and voting irregularities“. The suspension has been lifted but local members say that many of the ‘usual suspects’ are still behaving in the manner they
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Talking Manufacturing podcast: Emma Lewell-Buck MP discusses the importance of education to the manufacturing industry
In the fifth episode of Talking Manufacturing, Emma Lewell-Buck, Labour MP for South Shields, talks about why education and upskilling is so essential for the manufacturing industry and for the UK economy as a whole.
Focusing on the second pledge of the JMI Manifesto released in 2021, Emma Lewell-Buck and host Brendan Chilton talk about how neglecting education has damaged the manufacturing sector and how this can be changed.
Lewell-Buck discusses why manufacturing is so important to her constituency and the links she has observed between deindustrialisation and falling apprenticeships, putting an end to generations of work in the mining and shipbuilding industries. She also touches on how manufacturing must adapt to more sustainable practices, the role of the cost-of-living crisis, and how the government’s inaction is worsening the outlook for the industry
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I genuinely will not take 13 minutes for my contribution, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Our armed forces give it their all every single day for our protection. Their level of commitment and courage is, sadly, not matched by this Government. Worse, as our Defence Committee report and the reports from the Public Accounts Committee chaired by my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Dame Meg Hillier) show, the Government have presided over reductions in personnel, depletion of kit and delays in new capabilities. When it comes to the biggest threat of all, war, there is not a single service that is fully ready. This did not happen overnight. This is a culmination of, to use the words of the former Defence Secretary, the right hon. Member for Wyre and Preston North (Mr Wallace), the “hollowing out” of our forces over the last 14 years. The new Defence Secretary rightly said that we are in a pre-w