Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves employers with staff shortages and young people without jobs. They want access to reliable sources of finance, including a network of local banks.
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.
I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.
