More people signed from our area than anywhere else. In the resulting Parliamentary debate on September 15, I made it clear that the current legal right for every child with special needs to have ...

They voted for it at last year’s general election and the appetite for real transformation remains strong. While the Labour government has taken some positive steps – beginning to reverse decades of ...

These were bad policies that were totally divorced from the core Labour Party principle of protecting the weakest in society. I and dozens of other Labour MPs had no choice but to rebel. Its wider ...

Northumberland MP Ian Lavery is among backbenchers to have warned the Government that payouts to the victims of the contanimated blood scandal are taking "far, far, far too long". Mr Lavery was ...

I was devastated to see many hard-working, dedicated Labour colleagues lose their seats, but it was also traumatic seeing the extent to which people in my community just could not bring themselves to ...

Blyth and Ashington MP Ian Lavery revealed he had been the subject of attacks following a vote on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. A Conservative Party amendment to the bill included a ...

For self-serving political motives they are endangering the environment and they are putting at risk the prospects of many good jobs in green technologies coming to Northumberland. Reform UK said that ...

The British tradition that we all should be most proud of is that of tolerance, acceptance and respect for others. Farage’s recently declared policy of nullifying overnight the ‘Indefinite Leave To ...

Residents and colleagues at HC-One Ashington Grange Care Home in Northumberland enjoyed a visit from their local MP last week. Ian Lavery, Member of Parliament for Blyth and Ashington heard about ...

A Northumberland MP has taken to parliament to slam the county council over plans to remove thousands of people from the ...

A Northumberland MP and former miner has reacted furiously after a leading Conservative councillor claimed the North East has “fond memories” of Margaret Thatcher. Blyth and Ashington MP Ian Lavery ...