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The Home Office is broken

Chi Onwurah  (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab)   Between 2015 and 2020, the proportion of asylum seekers whose application Between 2015-2021, the number of asylum seekers applications decided by the Home Office within the 6 month target plummeted from 80% to 17%. leaving asylum seekers in misery & putting communities under pressure The Home Office […]

Will the commitment to fully implement Northern Powerhouse Rail would last?

As the birthplace of British Railways, #Newcastle bid to be the home of Great British Railways – but the Tories are now delaying it. I asked if the last PMs commitment to fully implement Northern Powerhouse Rail would last pic.twitter.com/sJsLQ298ME — Chi Onwurah ???? (@ChiOnwurah) October 24, 2022 As the birthplace of British Railways, Newcastle […]

It does not take courage to crash the economy, it takes reckless arrogance and a disregard for ordinary people’s working lives.

.@PennyMordaunt said the PM has shown courage. It does not take courage to crash the economy, it takes reckless arrogance and a disregard for ordinary people's working lives. Restoring economic credibility will take a @UKLabour Government! pic.twitter.com/BQ5uaAOlM6 — Chi Onwurah ???? (@ChiOnwurah) October 17, 2022 Penny Mordaunt said the PM has shown courage. It does […]

Tory Budget for the rich

Newcastle paid a heavy price for Tory economic austerity – services slashed, wages cut. Now the Chancellor is borrowing billions to gamble on tax cuts & boosting oil companies’ profits. I asked him to apologise for making Newcastle poorer and expecting us to pay for it.The Chancellor responded that ‘tax cuts were for everyone’. Well […]

NHS not safe in Tory hands

Chi Onwurah  (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) My constituents face intolerable delays in A&E, for an appointment, for referral for mental health treatment, or for an ambulance. Those who work in the NHS face plummeting morale, effective pay cuts and staff shortages. The Secretary of State’s response is to aspire to a GP waiting time […]

Vote for Newcastle to be the Great British Railways HQ

Voting is open for Newcastle to be the home of the #GreatBritishRailways HQ! We have the passion, the people and the history, so vote now and lets #BringtheRailwaysHome!https://t.co/FD51A7B8Ci pic.twitter.com/AUOijwXOzB — Chi Onwurah ???? (@ChiOnwurah) July 22, 2022 Voting is open for Newcastle to be the home of the #GreatBritishRailways HQ! We have the passion, the […]

Women’s Health Inequality

NE women spend 26% of their life not in good health, 3% pts above the national average, as the #NorthEast which has some of the highest levels of #health inequality in the UK. I asked Minister how he would target areas of high inequality & ensure #research was conducted here. pic.twitter.com/ny1X1ynAZt — Chi Onwurah ???? […]

No Confidence in this Government

Door-knocking in #NewcastleCentral Sunday a young mum of two told me she had never found it so hard to manage, joking that she would soon have to sell a kidney. One of the reasons I voted #noconfidence in the Govt was that it does not support working people in Newcastle. #VONC ???? pic.twitter.com/UV2qOIn0jY — Chi […]

Backlogs in Government Departments

Constituents face passport delays, driving licence delays, visa delays, benefit delays. Tories answer to #BacklogBritain is to cut the civil service staff who responded magnificently to Covid, and who are now doing their best to cover as dysfunctional Tories squabble over jobs pic.twitter.com/5sl16TSXyJ — Chi Onwurah ???? (@ChiOnwurah) July 14, 2022 HANSARD: Chi Onwurah   Passport […]