Clive Lewis MP

5/5 Families need secure homes, fair wages and services run for people, not profit. Without real change frustration builds and insecure lives give the authoritarian right room to move in. Britain needs renewal built on fairness, security and democratic power.

4/5 In Norwich problems are stark. 4 in 10 children in poorest wards live in poverty. Rents swallow nearly forty per cent of take‑home pay. 1 in 5 households live in fuel poverty. Local groups warn national promises won'treach families here without affordable housing, insulation and regeneration.

3/5 UNICEF UK called ending the limit a turning point. Barnardo’s welcomed safe housing and meals. Child Poverty Action Group said Labour must go further.

2/5 New in 2025: scrapping the two‑child limit, a duty to alert when children become homeless, ending B&B use beyond six weeks, and a £950m fund for 5,000 homes. Reaffirmed: free school meals and childcare support.

1/5 Labour’s Child Poverty Strategy marks a step forward. Its aim is to ease the stress and suffering of around 550,000 children and families. This only counts if backed by clear targets and funding.

Police use facial recognition to track children as young as 12 Campaigners question the inclusion of hundreds of under-18s on the watchlists that police forces use in street surveillance operations

The use of facial recognition is a regulatory wild west. If the government does not take urgent action to protect the public by restricting its use, they will erode trust and enable authoritarian infrastructure to be built that is clearly open to abuse.

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Headline a Sunday Times news article: 'Police use facial recognition to track children as young as 12'

This is the predictable consequence of rolling out a dangerous technology without safeguards. There isn’t public consent for police using these mass surveillance tools for exactly this reason.

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A system built to extract will fail again to protect us - no matter how much you regulate it.

We can do it better.

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If the cost of living crisis won’t move this government, maybe the collapse of their climate programme will.

After 35 years of privatisation:
- No new major water reservoirs built
- 3bn litres lost to leaks every day
- £85bn taken in dividends.

Public ownership is the only credible fix.

The Reform has dropped the act, openly Thatcherite. The Conservatives are copying them to save their skins. The best way to cut support for the authoritarian right is to stand with people against profiteers in water and energy, and give real security.

2/2 Until we tackle the extraction economy at its root, living standards won’t recover and the promise of “change” will remain unfulfilled.

This Budget steadies the ship but doesn’t change its course.

1/2 Today’s Budget has some welcome steps, including ending the two-child limit and the start of council tax reform.

But it’s tactical, not strategic.

Britain needs a plan that taxes wealth fairly, devolves real power, and brings essential utilities back under public control.

2/2 If this Labour government is serious about rebuilding trust, it should start with the BBC itself.

Turn it into a cooperative. Put power in the hands of its audience and its workers- not a revolving door of wealthy elites.

1/2 The “people’s broadcaster” is now overseen by private equity grandees, ex-CEOs of privatised utilities, investment bankers and assorted corporate heavyweights.

Hardly the broad public it claims to serve.

Together with my Green New Deal colleagues, Colin Hines and Larry Elliott we have published a document of hope and possibility in advance of the Rachel Reeves event on Wednesday:

A Popular Budget to Fund a Social and Green New Deal.

Please read and share….

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4/4 I would say to the public, look beyond tough talk about deporting children & see how the government used this announcement to double down on rolling out hugely unpopular digital ID cards. A voiceless group of people is being used to usher in such policies. Do you think it is going to end there?

3/4 We are looking at a fundamental shift in the role of the state and how it treats rights. History is littered with examples of people on the margins – prisoners, the homeless, people on benefits – being used by governments to push through conditionality.

2/4 Evidence from other countries shows many voters will see this as extreme and cruel. Others will see it for the desperate political posturing it is and turn further to the authoritarian right, who’ll move on to saying even the Home Secretary’s performative cruelty doesn’t go far enough.

EXCLUSIVE: Labour MPs condemn the government’s immigration proposals as ‘desperate political posturing’ 'If the Government thinks this week’s hard-line immigration shift will help halt the nosedive in its support, they’re wrong.'

1/4 Making sure people have confidence in their borders and sovereignty is important. But if the Government thinks this week’s hard-line immigration shift will help halt the nosedive in its support, they’re wrong.

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Screenshot of Guardian article headline: 'Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history'

I’ll just leave this here.

3/3 As I say in this clip from the Daily Politics, what we're getting now is “a rolling PR campaign with a spreadsheet attached”, not a considered economic or political strategy.

2/3 That damage would've been worse if a rise came without (still needed) matching action on income from wealth, or on profiteering in energy, food and housing.

1/3 It's being trailed in the media that the chancellor won't, after all, break the manifesto pledge on income tax. If that holds, I welcome it. Breaking the pledge would drive yet another nail into the coffin of political trust.

How Palantir infiltrated the state At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

4/4 Although the Bill is now law, the new rights won’t apply immediately. The government will set implementation dates in the coming months, so renters should keep an eye on official guidance and Shelter’s updates.

3/4 ✅ Bans discrimination against tenants receiving benefits or with children.

In Norwich, where around 1 in 5 households rent privately, this will make a real difference for hundreds of families—improving security and standards.

2/4 The new law:

✅ Ends Section 21 “no-fault” evictions, which previously allowed landlords to remove tenants without giving a reason. Nationally, these evictions led to 25,000 households becoming homeless in one year.
✅ Extends minimum safety standards to private rentals.

Breaking! The Renters' Rights Bill is now law

1/4 This is how leading housing and homelessness charity Shelter welcomed a major win for renters yesterday.

Last night, the Renters’ Rights Bill received Royal Assent and, thanks to this Labour government, it’s now law.

Why isn't my government in favour of public ownership of water?

I don't mince my words answering this and many of your most pressing questions on water.

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Why isn't my government in favour of public ownership of water?

I don't mince my words answering this and many of your most pressing questions on water.

Watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=s3Lb...

Support the campaign: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...