Below is the full text of Chi’s speech on the Westminster Hall debate to highlight the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s time in Newcastle in 1967. You can watch the full debate here. — I beg to move, That this…
Chi takes up case for Toon Beef label for Town Moor cattle
Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central today in Parliament pressed the Minister for local labelling regulations to help promote Toon Beef from the cattle who graze on the Town Moor She believes consumers want and should have better information about…
2016 Open Data Competition
Take part in Chi’s 2016 Open Data Competition by submitting an app or infographic using Newcastle upon Tyne Central’s constituency casework open data for the last year. The entry who is the most innovative, interesting or useful in their use of the…
Statement on ADS
On social media some people have tried to undermine my genuine and considered concerns over Jeremy Corbyn by claiming I am a ‘warmonger’ who attended a dinner with “arms dealer”. In my capacity as Shadow Minister for Cyber Security and…
Blue House roundabout draft proposals should not be part of Newcastle’s future – we need to change the way we travel
In a meeting with Newcastle City Council yesterday (Wednesday), Chi expressed her deep, deep concerns at the proposals for changes to the Blue House roundabout which the Council has released in early pre-consultation. She is calling a town hall meeting…
Chi Onwurah seeks comments on proposals for the Blue House roundabout
Chi will be meeting with Newcastle City Council on Wednesday 3rd August to discuss the proposals for the Blue House roundabout which will see parts of Little Moor Dukes Moor turned into a new roundabout. Chi will be voicing her…
Chi among inaugural ‘top 50 women in engineering’
Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and shadow minister for culture and the digital economy was today announced as one of the top 50 influential women in engineering. The list, compiled by the Daily Telegraph in collaboration with the…
Chi to host Nigerian President’s Special Diaspora Adviser in Newcastle
Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central working with the Nigerian Association of Tyne & Wear has invited the North East’s Nigerian Diaspora communities to a Town Hall style meeting at Newcastle University Business School this Friday(20th May) with the Hon…
Chi Encourages Teens to Take Part in an Experience of a Lifetime this Summer
Over 500 teenagers from Newcastle upon Tyne have already said yes to a once-in-a-lifetime experience this summer by signing up for National Citizen Service (NCS). This summer NCS is giving young people aged 15-17* the chance to spend two weeks…
A taxing time for privilege
The David Cameron Tax Haven Peepshow is such an ironyfest it is hard to know where to start. Ministers who used the teenage scribblings of Ed Miliband’s (war hero) father to question the Labour Party’s commitment to national security now…