Sunderland Echo column - Bridget Phillipson

BRIDGET PHILLIPSON MP: The King’s Speech will take the brakes off Britain – but it is only the beginning

This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To read the original article click here. This is my first column for the Echo since being re-elected as Member of Parliament for Houghton and Sunderland South at the recent General Election. Having been born and raised locally, it’s the privilege…

BRIDGET PHILLIPSON: This Tory government has set families up to fail

This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To read the original article click here. This week, MPs flooded back to Westminster with inboxes full of messages from constituents unable to access the childcare It won’t come as a surprise to anyone working in early years education and childcare…

Bridget Phillipson MP: A farcical incompetent hat-trick by this bungling Tory Government.

Crumbling school buildings, botched school budgets and now the hat-trick: a childcare pledge in tatters because of Conservative bungling. This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To read the original article click here Last Spring, we saw the Chancellor once again following Labour’s lead, and announcing an expansion…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour will reset the broken relationship between government, schools and families.

This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To read the original article click here. Last week I unveiled Labour’s long-term plan to tackle persistent school absence and drive high and rising standards in education. Levels of persistent school absence have doubled in the last five years. Staggeringly, more…

Bridget Phillipson: The Tories are a party out of ideas and out of time

This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To read the original article click here. At the Autumn Statement the Chancellor lifted the lid on thirteen years of Conservative economic failure. What was laid bare is the full scale of the damage that the Conservative Government has done in…

Bridget Phillipson: We need high and rising standards for support staff because we need high and rising standards for the children they support

As students come to the end of their first week back at school, I want to take the opportunity to champion a group who play a crucial role in pupils’ development but are too often overlooked: school support staff. This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To read…

Labour will spread opportunity and help every child thrive

The promise we tell our children and grandchildren is that if you work hard, you’ll be able to get on. Opportunity belongs to everyone. Everyone should have the opportunity to make the most of their ability with careers open to all, enabling them to do what they do best and…

Sunderland Echo: A Labour government will improve the lives of working people and build a fit for future NHS

Everyone, wherever they live, whatever they earn, should get healthcare free at the point of use. That’s the founding promise of the NHS. That’s why the NHS is loved by the British people. The last Labour government introduced a second promise: the NHS would always be there when needed. After…

Sunderland Echo: The Government’s poverty of ambition has been failing our children for thirteen long years

The Government’s refusal to come clean on England’s crumbling school buildings is putting lives at risk It’s been over a year since leaked Government documents revealed that “many school buildings in England are now in such disrepair they are a risk to life”. And yet the Government has still not…

Sunderland Echo: The cost of living crisis was created in Number 10 but is being paid for by ordinary people

Thirteen years of Conservative mismanagement has left our public services in disarray. The NHS is without the doctors and nurses it needs. Hospitals are crumbling. People are finding it impossible to get a GP appointment or an operation when they need one: in February 2023, 3,227 people in Sunderland waited…

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