My latest Dear Newcastle Constituency Report is now up, check out what I’ve been up to and who I’ve been meeting as your MP – in Newcastle, in Parliament and online. Read the full Newsletter at: https://chionwurahmp.com/wp-content/uploads/Dear-Newcastle-September.pdf
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…
The Secretary of State for Health didn’t agree with me that the NHS wasn’t safe in the Tory’s hands. Here’s why she’s wrong. One constituent has been on the waiting list for a wheelchair since January this year. …
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…
Liz Truss thinks that getting energy companies to pay their fair share would “undermine the national interest”. The reality is that she is so wedded to hard right ideology that she will let the working people of Newcastle foot the…
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) The people of Newcastle have always held a strong and proud sense of our own identity as Geordies, as working people, as citizens of the United Kingdom and, for seven decades, as subjects…
During PMQs the Prime Minister claimed to know what the country wants. However, she refuses to back a windfall tax on energy profits. Here’s an August YouGov Poll that shows what the country thinks about a windfall tax.
When families in Newcastle need every penny they can get our PM, Liz Truss , seems to think now is the right time to protect Shell’s excess profits and give Amazon a tax cut. There’s nothing new about a Tory…