Ben Coleman

With the US retreating from Europe, Russia a growing threat and the hard right gaining ground, I welcome the UK & Germany moving closer together – in deeds, not just words. Defence, economy, energy, education, more. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Vorsprung durch Freundschaft! My remarks in Parliament.

Visiting the UK's first Rare Diseases Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital for #RareDiseaseDay2026. The "carousel" clinic - all specialists in one visit - is brilliant. But with NHS England restructuring, 70+ vital rare disease services need protection. I'll keep pushing in Parliament.

Families of children with SEND have battled too long, so govt's new ISPs must be a genuine entitlement. I asked the Education Sec: what if a school ignores a child's plan? Please respond to the consultation and help shape what govt does.
www.gov.uk/government/c...

That means calling out racism at the top of the game - including Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s deeply divisive comments about immigration, which brought football into disrepute. I’ve joined over 100 MPs demanding the FA do better. Read our letter here.

Chelsea’s Wesley Fofana is one of our own - and the racist abuse targeting him and other Premier League players is completely unacceptable, just as the vile abuse Lioness Jess Carter faced last summer was. Social media companies must act, but the FA needs to show leadership, too.

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

Click the link below to have your say: www.gov.uk/government/c...

The government's child online safety consultation is now live – and I want Chelsea & Fulham's voice in it. Social media. Gaming platforms. AI chatbots. Doom-scrolling algorithms. Night-time curfews. All on the table.

Palestine: register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/palestine-20...
Qatar: register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/qatar-202602...
UAE: register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/united-arab-...

British nationals should register their presence with
the Foreign Office at the links here:

Bahrain: register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/bahrain-2026...
Kuwait: register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/kuwait-20260...
Israel: register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/israel-20260...

I know people in Chelsea & Fulham are concerned by events in the Middle East. Please help get the message out to all British nationals there that they should register their presence via the links below.

And do let me know if I can help in any way: ben.coleman.mp@parliament.uk

Great to meet parents preparing for an iftar at Thomas’ Academy, Fulham today – a wonderful, inclusive school bringing together families and community organisations. Wishing everyone a warm and joyful evening.

Brexit has cost us £90 billion a year in lost tax revenue - money we desperately need for our NHS, schools & police. 6/10 people who voted Leave now want a closer relationship with the EU. It's time to repair the damage and put Brexit right for Chelsea and Fulham and the whole country.

Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up Changes announced in the Budget mean all energy bills will see some kind of reduction, but it will vary.

Read more here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bills falling by £117 from April — real relief for families. Funding insulation levies through progressive taxation means costs are more fairly shared. Now let's ensure everyone in fuel poverty gets the high-quality retrofitting support they need to keep bills down.

Real hope SEND reforms will ease disabled children and families’ fight for support. 1 million children with new individual plans, £3.6 billion investment & EHCPs retained. Questions remain – enforcement, legal teeth, definition of complex needs. I'll keep backing children and families.

34 children infected in a North London measles outbreak. The UK has lost its elimination status. I've been pushing vaccination in pharmacies for years - I challenged NHS vaccination chiefs to act. They deflected, promised to "get back to me." Meanwhile, measles spreads.

Sad to see ideology driving Reform's Richard Rice when he claims Erasmus+ & SAFE won't benefit the UK. Erasmus+ opens opportunities in Europe for working-class kids & apprentices. On SAFE, UK would sit with EU firms at €150bn defence procurement table. Jobs - not ideology.

Talking to schoolchildren is best part of this job. Every child in Chelsea and Fulham deserves a school that works for them - and government's new 10-year plan delivers. £700m to fix broken buildings, £300m to modernise classrooms and dedicated SEND spaces in every secondary 🏫.

A pleasure to speak with @chelfulhamben.bsky.social at #Lab25 about the future of cancer research and care. Thanks for visiting our stand!

A lot of fun opening and being a judge yesterday at the BTRC Dog Show on Parsons Green in aid of the Brain Tumour Research Campaign. Wonderful dogs, proud owners, all brought together by dedicated volunteers for a great Fulham day.

My piece for The Telegraph about online safety

Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

It was a privilege to represent Chelsea and Fulham residents, and an honour to see HM The Queen again, at a recent reception at Buckingham Palace held by HM The King for newly elected MPs and recently appointed Lords.

It was an honour for me to save Stoll military veterans in Fulham from eviction and keep their community together. They'll start moving to brand new homes in the spring. I was pleased to be invited to support their Q&A with Stoll management last week. I'll keep sticking by them.

I and other Labour MPs are determined to hold managing agents to account and stop them ripping off residents. We've already met FirstPort to demand they improve. Now we've asked RMG to come to Parliament to explain excessive service charge increases, lack of transparency and more.

What a delight to welcome the engaged, fizzing St Joseph's Primary School in Chelsea to Parliament this week. Their curiosity, enthusiasm and great questions filled me with hope for the future. The school and its teachers are doing a top job.

Renters’ Rights Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Renters’ Rights Bill' on Tuesday 4 February 2025.

I'm fighting in Parliament for the wonderful Chelsea Reach houseboat community threatened by a predatory landlord. Delighted the govt has confirmed to my friend Lord Cashman it will consider action needed to give houseboat owners greater security in their homes.
hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-0...

My thanks to the lively, engaged politics students at Chelsea Academy for welcoming me and giving me a grilling on everything from assisted dying to how I help constituents to who's the worst behaved MP (I hope my reply remains between us).

I'm still fighting alongside residents to save the King's Road Post Office from closure, as I said in Parliament last week, making the case to PO management and the government.

Please sign my petition to help keep up the pressure: bencoleman.uk/post-office-...

80 years from the liberation of Auschwitz, I signed the Holocaust Educational Trust Book of Commitment in Parliament and attended a powerful event held by Hammersmith & Fulham Council which also talked about the Bosnian genocide. We must stand up against hatred, educate and never forget.