Clive Lewis MP

2/2 Staff and patients are worried about service pressures, safety, and financial planning. I’ll continue to work to ensure that local voices of staff, patients and local people are heard.

1/2 I've written to the Health Minister and Norfolk & Suffolk ICB about concerns raised during the merger of our local NHS boards. This reorganisation affects how care is delivered across both counties.

Counter-terror police to give update after two die in Manchester synagogue attack A third person, the suspect, was shot dead by police - video showed a man with items strapped around his waist. The attack happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

I am deeply shocked and saddened by the horrific attack outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones, and the entire Jewish community. We must stand together, resolute against antisemitism and hatred in all its forms.

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YouTube video by Compass 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture

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2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture - Compass 20 years on from his passing, it is as important now just as it ever has been to remember Robin Cook's life and reflect on his political commitment to democracy, environmental justice and internationa...

20 years on from the passing of Robin Cook, I delivered the Robin Cook Memorial Lecture.

You can read the published version of my speech here.

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Public disillusionment with the political class isn’t a passing phase.

It's the reality of a system where the dividing line between the state - and wealth, oligarchs and corporate power - has been systematically erased.

Read my article for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Screenshot of the gov.uk petition 'Do not introduce Digital ID cards' showing over 1 million signatories

One million people have already signed a petition against ID cards.

If we’re serious about rebuilding trust, this is the last place to start.

It's like deciding to become a pacifist and then walking into your roughest local pub and knocking everyone's pints out of their hands.

Letter to the Prime Minister calling for the abolition of the two-child benefit cap - page 1

Letter to the Prime Minister calling for the abolition of the two-child benefit cap - page 2

Along with 60 parliamentarians, I've written to the Prime Minister calling on him to abolish the two-child benefit cap.

This policy continues to inflict severe and avoidable hardship on families across the country. Its abolition must be central to any credible child poverty strategy.

YouTube video by Compass 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture

You can now watch 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture on Youtube, delivered by Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis.bsky.social).

Robin was a fierce friend to Compass and a torchbearer for the human, alliance-based, radical social democracy that we need so desperately today.

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"Farage & Tommy are fuelled by cheques from billionaires & promotion across their media empires." 🤜

Organisers of Saturday’s Stop Rosebank event reported strong public support and thoughtful conversations throughout the day. Most people they spoke with agreed that the oilfield is a poor deal for Britain and a serious risk to the climate.

These are practical steps that reduce emissions and improve energy security.

I was pleased to see people in Norwich making their voices heard.

I oppose the development of Rosebank. I support a properly funded transition for oil and gas workers and affected communities. The UK needs to fix its energy system by scaling up renewables, cutting reliance on fossil fuels and insulating homes.

Norwich anti Rosebank demo

Rosebank remains the UK’s largest undeveloped oil field. In January, the Edinburgh court ruled that its approval was unlawful due to the scale of the emissions involved. The Labour government now faces a decision on whether to re-approve the project under a revised regime.

Letter to the Prime Minister Page 1

Letter to the Prime Minister Page 2

The Prime Minister needs to clarify what legal advice has been received about the visit by Israel's President Isaac Herzog to the UK, and whether his entry is compatible with our obligations under the Genocide Convention.

We’ve seen this story before, and we know where it leads. Our city is better than this, and we must stand together to say: not in our name, and not on our streets.”

But the mask always slips. Watch the video; it’s not about women’s safety, it’s not about patriotism, it’s not about common sense. It’s about racism and intimidation, scapegoating vulnerable people to divide our communities and poison our politics.

And let’s be clear: the same people turn up at so-called ‘protests’ outside temporary accommodation for asylum seekers. They wrap themselves in the language of protecting women, defending British pride, or being ‘just right, not far-right.’

These are the tactics of the far right, overt racists and fascists. From Oswald Mosley’s Brownshirts in the 1930s to the National Front in the 1970s, and now here in our city, the pattern remains the same.

They cheer the fact that they’re outside ‘a mosque’, then climb a ladder to hang a St George’s Cross flag from a lamp post, weaponising a national symbol to try to intimidate part of our community.

There’s no ambiguity here. This is racism, pure and simple.

“Everyone should watch the video for themselves. One member of the group laughingly refers to somebody as a ‘black cunt’ and threatens to ‘knock them out.’

The group chanted aggressively, revved motorbikes, and shouted slogans like “whose streets, our streets” while filming the entire display.

Videos posted online included racist language and footage of members confronting locals. Here's the full response I gave.

Dozens of flags put up across city neighbourhood overnight as locals call police Norfolk Police were called to Dereham Road, Norwich, last night as dozens of flags were put up around the neighbourhood, including outside a mosque.

Local media report that a group of 20 to 30 individuals put up dozens of flags across Norwich, including outside the Islamic community centre on Dereham Road, in what many residents described as an act of intimidation.

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Mainstream is serious about winning a democratic socialist future.

We stand for the redistribution of power and wealth, the defence of human rights and dignity at home and abroad, the creation of a new political economy & much more.

Find out more: www.mainstreamlabour.org

To transform the country and take on the populist right - Labour must offer a popular, principled and practical left politics for meaningful change.

@mainstreamlabour.bsky.social, launching today, seeks to do this.

Find out more in the link on the thread below.

We stand for the redistribution of power and wealth, the defence of human rights and dignity at home and abroad, the creation of a new political economy & much more.

We’re thrilled to have @labourlewis.bsky.social join Mainstream as a founding signatory.

www.mainstreamlabour.org/about

In my speech, I set out what we could do today to start the transformation our communities urgently need.

Labour’s measures - Best Start hubs, energy efficiency upgrades, breakfast clubs - are real gains. But they’re just the start. If we want a society built on solidarity, not division, we must go further and faster.

YouTube video by Clive Lewis Clive Lewis speech at his debate on living standards in the East of England, Parliament 02-09-25

This week I led a debate in Parliament on living standards in the East of England. For too long, our region has been left behind — while an authoritarian right, bankrolled by speculative capital, big tech, and dirty energy, fuels fear and scapegoating to divide us.

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Letter from Clive Lewis MP to the Minister for Women and Equalities, dated 29 July 2025, raising concern that the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s revised Code of Practice may receive ministerial approval before being seen by MPs or the public. The letter calls for parliamentary scrutiny and asks whether the Government will present the changes to Parliament before approval

Deeply concerned that changes to trans rights could be approved without MPs or the public seeing details. This risks undermining accountability on issues affecting lives and freedoms. Proposals must face scrutiny before approval. Everyone deserves to know what’s being decided in their name.