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The Home Secretary is holding back funds to give the North the same extra police officers as the south - and Labour has the figures to...

Police staff are a vital part of fight against crime, and it’s time the Home Secretary handed over the funds for a proper pay rise. Last...

Emergency grants are desperately needed to help people escape abusive partners during the cost of living crisis. That's why I’ve joined...

Throughout this summer people have been stepping up across our region to help others and support their neighbourhood. As inflation soars...

Feeding Families are fighting poverty head on- so I'm running my first (and last) ever Great North Run for them. Feeding Families are on...

As Boris Johnson clung on to power and the Tories turned a blind eye to the nation's cost of living crisis, our Labour Party was setting...

Poverty in England is entrenched and it is entrenched because the people who experience it have no power to end it. That’s the simple...

Poverty, deprivation and crime go hand in hand. We all know criminals thrive when people are denied opportunity and we know that when...

I was honoured to be standing alongside a brave Newcastle mum who has received a top recognition for her work teaching kids about knife...