News - John McDonnell MP

John McDonnell’s Westminster Hall Debate on the podiatry workforce and patient care.

The background to this debate is a meeting I had with a number of local podiatrists representing the Royal College of Podiatry, so let me thank them for the briefing that the royal college has sent me. I want to talk about the development of a workforce strategy for podiatry.…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Insolvency Law and Directors Disqualification

Thank you, Ms Fovargue—I always find the pronunciation difficult. That is my fault, not that of the spelling. I do not have a lot to say, other than to compliment my hon. Friend the Member for Salford and Eccles (Rebecca Long Bailey) on her speech. To be frank, I am…

Labour doesn’t need to sabotage its green prosperity plan – just to cost it clearly -John McDonnell Guardian opinion 9th June

Today, Rachel Reeves announced that she is delaying plans to borrow £28bn a year for a green prosperity fund under a Labour government. There may be some influential people in the Labour party who never supported the plan in the first place – maybe because it looked so much like the 2019…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on National Carers Week in the Chamber

I will try to get through my 10-minute speech as rapidly as I can, Madam Deputy Speaker. I chair a group of unpaid carers, and have been doing so for the past 18 months. They are all Labour party supporters. It is a Labour carers group because we seek to…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Heathrow Airport Expansion in Westminster Hall

I did not think that we would ever be here again, but this is like the Monty Python dead parrot sketch—it is dead; it is not going to happen. My hon. Friends the Members for Putney (Fleur Anderson) and for Hammersmith (Andy Slaughter) and the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson)…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Digital markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; I will be relatively brief. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Salford and Eccles (Rebecca Long Bailey), I am a member of the National Union of Journalists’ parliamentary group—in fact, I am its secretary. It is really pleasing that there have been so many…

John McDonnell’s contribution to Imprisonment for Public Protection Sentences debate.

I just want to raise three simple points. First, I congratulate the Chair of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill), and the Select Committee overall on an immensely thorough report that deals with an issue that has hung over us for so long…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the illegal immigration Bill 27th March.

I will be as brief as I can, Dame Rosie. There is much that I loathe in this Bill, but I will concentrate on children’s detention. I speak in support the amendments tabled in my name, as well as new clause 18. I wish to speak on this issue because I…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall debate Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Specialist Workforce

I declare an interest, Mr Sharma—my wife is Dr Cynthia Pinto, chair of the committee on the Division of Educational and Child Psychology, and she is active in the Association of Educational Psychologists, so you can imagine what our breakfast conversations are like. I welcome the Minister, who has had…

John McDonnell’s contribution to Brain Tumour Research Funding 9th March.

There is a tradition in the House that people say it is an honour to follow the hon. Member who has just spoken. Usually, most of us do not mean it, but it really was a privilege to be in the Chamber to hear the speech by my hon. Friend…

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