MP for Portsmouth North, Mum of 3 & Pompey fan. Fighting for justice, fairness & equity. Iโll always put my home first. Itโs where everyone I ๐ lives
Arriving in Westminster Hall for the first time as the Member of Parliament for my home Portsmouth North.
I will never forget the people who sent me here.
Iโm getting down to work right away but it will take some time for me to set up my office, so grateful for your patience.
Portsmouth people voted for change. With historic results here in Portsmouth and across Britain, Labour is ready to deliver that change.
Excited to be doing it with
@StephenMorganMP
Thankyou to all who helped deliver this result and who voted for change. Work begins today.
Being an MP and representing the fantastic City of Portsmouth should never be taken for granted.
People tell me that they want change and Iโm working hard for every vote so that I can represent them. Change is possible but you have to vote for it ๐
I'm humbled to see so many people in Portsmouth North showing their support for me and Labour๐น
Thank you to everyone who has put up posters & garden stakes. If you would like a stake or poster (which will be put up & taken down for you) please see details in the comments!
So proud to have been sworn in as the Labour MP for my home city of Portsmouth. ๐น
Itโs an absolute honour to represent the residents of Portsmouth North.
Please bear with me whilst I organise a constituency office.
However you can now email on ๐๐ผamanda.martin.mp
@parliament
.uk
After 14 years, it's time to turn the page on Conservative failure.
I've got a local plan for Portsmouth North.
A positive change is possible and what our city deserves and needs.
Vote for change.
Vote Labour July 4th. โ
After 14 years, itโs time for change.
Stop the chaos.
Turn the page.
Start to rebuild.
Help us win in Pompey North and in South
Join our campaign team๐๐ป
Being selected as Labourโs Candidate for my home Portsmouth North means the world to me. Iโm determined to build a winning team here and to make a real difference to our city.
Sign up to be part of our campaign:
Congratulations to
@_Amanda_Martin_
, selected as Labourโs Parliamentary candidate for
#Portsmouth
North
The Tories have failed Portsmouth, and Britain. The country needs change and this changed Labour Party is ready to change the country.
Letโs get Britainโs future back
Fabulous Portsmouth North and Portsmouth South Friday canvass session tonight.
Labour can make the positive change we need and deserve in our city but only if you vote for it.
Vote Labour on 4th July.
Vote for our future
@PompeyLabour
Itโs time for change in Pompey North.
Turn the page a fresh start with a dedicated MP who will put our city first.
On Thursday theyโre voting for change, are you?
@UKLabour
Back to school but this time Iโm not the teacher because itโs in the
@HouseofCommons
I promised to do politics differently and I intend to fulfill that promise by ensuring we rebuild trust and service with a Labour Government.
@UKLabour
The general election is here!
After 14 years of the Tories, itโs time for change in Portsmouth North.
Time to elect me as your MP.
Iโll be a visible, local and put Portsmouth first.
Please sign up below to support my campaign, Iโm out everyday:๐๐ผ
Great to spend time on my first day in the job as Labour Portsmouth North MP with Medina Primary - School Council this lunchtime.
Taking tough questions from pupils on taxes, plans for education and what my priorities for Portsmouth are!
So so proud to be a part of the positivity for change in our country and in our city.
With the force of a Labour government along with
@StephenMorganMP
we will strive to make a difference for the residents of Portsmouth North .
Every child deserves to get the best start in life. Honoured to be joining
@bphillipsonMP
โs Ministerial team
@educationgovuk
to deliver better childcare and early education. I canโt wait to get started
One of the biggest issues you raise with me on the doorstep is family homes being turned in to HMOโs.
Today I asked the leader of the house when I can raise this issue in the upcoming debates on planning reform to give more powers to local government and residents in our city.
The Kingโs Speech today & across this week sets out our ambitious agenda to create wealth across the UK & bring positive change to the lives of people in Britain and in Portsmouth.
By bringing forward the laws we need to rebuild our country for the long-term.
Change begins now.
Proud to represent
@NEUnion
on
@GMB
with
@Susa
nnareid100 &
@piersmorgan
to discuss the need to include schools & colleges in the
#NationalLockdown
. It cannot be a half measure & we cannot risk extending he 28 days. Young people biggest growth rate to spread the virus
Pompey is full of brilliant people, who deserve so much more.
Everywhere I go in our city Iโm stopped in the street and told itโs time for change.
Choose me on Thursday, and the work of change begins on Friday.
Your vote will mean that together we can make a difference here.
LATEST POLLING!! Itโs looking really close in Portsmouth North. We can win in here but I will need your help.
Hereโs how ๐๐ผ
#win24
@LabourParty
Behaviour Code training.
Important session for new MPs on behaviour and standards - Building trust back in politics starts here and is the centre of Labourโs commitment to service! โค๏ธ
Being selected to be the Labour Candidate for the city I love, where my kids were born, where my friends & family live has been a complete honour & privileged. Iโve had a small & dedicated team working so very hard to show thereโs an alternative. Tomorrow Please vote for me ๐๐ผ
Windy and wonderful.
Thank you to the brilliant team of dedicated volunteers and sponsors who have made Portsmouth Pride possible today.
Thank you all for being here, and for being you.
Happy Portsmouth Pride! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ in our great city.
Now he needs to do the same for the rest of the countries tier 4 areas.
@portsmouthtoday
@NEUnion
cannot be one rule for London and one rule for the rest of the country. SAGE say itโs the right thing to do. Listen to the science
@GavinWilliamson
What a day. Bold & a very tough decision but with the virus at its highest rate & lack of leadership & ability to follow their own scientist by the gov we have no choice but to act again to defend our members pupils, school communities & the NHS
@NEUnion
A joy to spend the day with the team, talking to voters about the change Labour will deliver:
โก Cutting energy bills
๐ท๐ผโโ๏ธ Creating good jobs
๐ฅ Getting NHS waits down
๐ฎ๐ปโโ๏ธ More police on our streets
๐ More childcare place & teachers
Vote Labour ๐น
Go
@AngelaRayner
every time. She listens, she researches & has produced the best thing this country has seen in a very long time in the National Education Service. A service that will embrace academic & vocational, young & old ๐นโค๏ธ
@UKLabour
@PompeyLabour
#VoteLabour
๐จToday itโs your chance to send a message to the Tories that it's time for change.
๐ณYou have until 10pm to vote make sure you take your photo ID.
โบ๏ธ My niece has been out posting vote reminders with her parents this morning because they want change for their & her future.
Beacon View Primary School in Paulsgrove, has had ยฃ450,000+ cut in funding under the Tories = over ยฃ1k per pupil.
As a teacher in Portsmouth for 20+ years Iโm proud Labour will deliver free breakfast clubs in primary school, 6,500 more teachers & mental health support in schools.
The
@ONS
has shown that the infection rate in secondary school pupils has risen 50 times since September. The
@NEUnion
believe we need to ensure this lockdown is not a half measure and include all school and colleges in the lockdown.
โIf weโre having a national lockdown we have to include schools and collegesโ
The
@NEUnion
wants schools and colleges to close in England during the 4 week national lockdown, past President and teacher Amanda Martin tells
@StephenNolan
why.
This is Jo, she lives in Paulsgrove & works as a nurse here.
In 2019, Jo supported the Tories because they promised to get Brexit done.
But after seeing 1st hand what the Tories have done to our NHS, sheโs now backing me.
Only Labour has a plan to get the NHS back on its feet.
Iโll always put my home 1st. Itโs where everyone I love lives. Great to be out with Stephen Morgan & team tonight in Portsmouth
Itโs a clear choice at this election: More chaos with the Tories, or stability with Labour. More decline & division. Or hope & unity with
@LabourParty
Whilst the
#BBCDebate
is on weโre out in Portsmouth North talking to voters. After 14 years the Tories have broken Britain. Itโs time for change with Labour
If we win on the 4th July,
Labour will deliver better life chances for children and better choices for parents with our plan for childcare - making a real difference for hundreds of families in Portsmouth.
Feel as if your working harder & harder but have less to show for it?
Think the country is in a mess?
At the General Election, the choice for Portsmouth North is simple - vote for me, Amanda Martin to be your next MP or give the Tories another 5 years of chaos.
@LabourParty
Thanks to all those working at a polling station today. Things to remember when you vote:
๐ณ๏ธ You need photo identification to vote
๐ณ๏ธ Polls are open until 10pm
๐ณ๏ธ Find your polling station at
๐ณ๏ธ Remind friends and family to vote!
Busy but brilliant weekend so far.
Thanks to all the fabulous volunteers,
@StephenMorganMP
&
@LadyBasildon
for your support in delivering leaflets, knocking doors & chatting to the people of Pompey.
All ended with a washing up bowl and catching the last rays of sunshine.
In 1924 there was uproar in the press when the newly-elected Ellen Wilkinson appeared in Parliament in a green dress. Goodness knows what theyโd have made of Labourโs 190 women MPs a hundred years on!
Pompey matters to me. Itโs home. Itโs where I've taught for over 20 years, where I wave my son off on deployment for Royal Navy & where everyone I โค๏ธ lives
I can think of no greater privilege than representing my home town in Parliament
Please consider voting for me on 4th July
โOfsted does not raise
standards. Letโs put Ofsted back on its box , remove banners from our school gates and logos from our school stationery โ
@simonkidwell
passionately tells
@NAHTnews
#NAHTConf
Together we can stop the chaos, turn the page & start to rebuild.
Change will only happen if you vote for it on Thursday 4 July.
Great to have my friend the Shadow Rail Minister
@StephenMorganMP
& Baroness
@LadyBasildon
with me in Baffins this afternoon.
@thebaffinspub
๐Itโs
@PortsmouthPride
today.
Congratulations and thank you to all who have worked hard to make this happen.
Looking forward to joining you at the parade.
Lovely to hear
@matthaig1
on
@BBCRadio2
at the moment ๐
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
love his attitude and open frank conversation on the concerns we
@NEUnion
all share around advice, conflicting or lack of evidence from the government and our call for science to know it is safe
A world in which our sailors, marines & their families are valued & supported for life is what this life saving charity
@RNRMC
is all about.
A privilege to attend the charityโs event on board
@HMSPWLS
with
@StephenMorganMP
To find out more visit๐๐ผ
Wow what a way to spend a Tuesday lunch, as NEU President, chairing such an impressive panel giving the future of Education a real hope. A future that no longer means economic not educational decisions in our schools and colleges. โค๏ธโ ๐น
#TUC2019
@NEUnion
@NAHTnews
"The Prime Minister and the Chancellor have said Britain needs a high wage economy TWENTY times in the last year alone.
And now we're hearing public sector workers are getting a real terms pay cut." -
@nowak_paul
.
Not good enough.
๐กRestored mandatory housing targets
๐ทCreated a National Wealth Fund
๐จLifted the onshore wind ban
๐ฃBegun talks NHS & BMA
๐ฎStarted establishing new border force
๐ฐTalks water companies
๐บ๐ฆRecommitted to supporting Ukraine
๐Ordered an immediate assessment on public finances
A Labour government promised to clean up our waters and hold companies to account.
Within the first week we have made a start on that promise.
With water bosses signing up to our initial package of reforms. Ring fencing investment to invest or return money back to customers.
Wow what a month. Words canโt describe the pride & privileged I felt being able to stand as MP in the city I โค๏ธMeeting Pompey folk that had voted for me across the city was fab. Iโm disappointed with the result. But totally elated to have the amazing
@StephenMorganMP
re-elected
It should not be that our school leaders are put in this position. The government are wrong to press ahead with a wider opening. Once again theyโre being reckless with peoples lives by ignoring scientific evidence and recommendations and their own tests and conditions
@NEUnion
"It's scary. We just don't have enough information."
@NEU_Leadership
members Catherine Armistead, John Hayes and
@chrisdysonHT
join
@MaryBoustedNEU
in the Sunday Mirror to set out heads' concerns over 1 June wider opening
Having taught reception myself I know the importance of a great start in life. Early years is so important and Iโm proud to see that our government
@UKLabour
has put it at the heart of our vision for education.
Early years is about more than just childcare โ itโs about giving every child the best start in life. It sits right at the centre of my vision for education.
We'll deliver a sea change in our early years system, and that work begins now.
Proud and honoured is an understatement. Anyone who knows me knows I am passionate about my city and want the best for all Portsmouth residents.
People of Pompey North itโs
#timeforchange
This man really has no idea. Get back in your box and stop Meddling in something you are not qualified nor experienced to comment on. People working in schools are saving lives and providing the best education possible in the circumstances
@NEUnion
@cyclingkev
@MaryBoustedNEU
Donโt forget what the tories have done to our country and with our money.
With a fully costed plan life in Pompey really can be better under Labour.
Itโs time to turn the page and get our future back.
#VoteLabour
The irresponsibility lays with the gov for refusing to answer
@NEUnion
questions & for not discussing & negotiating their incredibly reckless plan with any education union. Let us know how itโs safe & answer the
#FiveTests
& state what the conditions are that make it safe to open
Nursery workers have been frontline workers throughout pandemic. Working hard to educate our youngest pupils & to keep our communities going. Give them the funding they need & deserve
#SaveOurNurseries
#FundEarlyYears
because without it many will not survive
@NEUnion
@NAHTnews
I spoke to Keir Starmer in Portsmouth about your priorities for our city.
Only Labour can get us building again, bring our high streets back to life, cut NHS waiting & clamp down on crime.
If elected on July 4. Iโll be a strong voice for our city because Pompey matters to me.
Tory and Lib Dem Govt have allowed the gender pay gap to widen & have stolen thousands of womenโs pensions the
@UKLabour
are the only party who respect these 1950s women who helped rebuild Britain & the only party who have a plan to compensate
@solent_waspi
@WASPI_Campaign
.
Over the summer Iโm going to be organising a campaign around education cuts Iโll be linking in with labour & working with surrounding CLPs & local schools letโs make sure every parent knows how much each school is set to lose and how it will effect their kids education
@NEUnion
Thankyou. Itโs playground bullying tactics donโt like whatโs being, said canโt answer the questions so attack.
@NEUnion
@TheBMA
& many experts are all saying the same thing - we cannot open till itโs safe - our staff, our pupils their families & our communities deserve the truth.
Today's right wing papers are going after union leaders including our
@PompeyLabour
Chair
@amandamartinNEU
. An injury to one is an injury to all. Solidarity to all those targeted but please don't give up the vital work you're doing. We're behind you every step of the way.
As my leaflet is delivered across the city personal attacks have begun. Itโs time to take the nastiness out of politics & concentrate on making life better for all in my city. As a teacher I teach - people will have different opinions & we shd listen & we shd treat with respect
Fantastic day with National Education Union
#marchofthe4yearolds
against new baseline testing -
delivering a petition with over 68,000 signature please add your name
Really gd to see Sunday politics back & delighted to be a guest - discussing the return of nurseries, schools & colleges & the chaotic gov plans letting us down & passing the blaming instead of working on a true educ recovery plan & ensuring a robust testing system is in place
The Labour Government will secure the biggest-ever investment to fix our broken water system, boosting economic growth and creating thousands of jobs across the country as we clean up our polluted waterways.
Pleasure to start the day with a visit to
@FlyingBullA
to meet with staff, speak at their school assembly and meet the brilliant school council.
To say itโs been tough in education is an understatement and with Labour I cannot promise a quick solution but we can make a start.
Itโs been a busy week in government. But itโs been a week of rolling up our sleeves and getting on with making the positive changes promised and needed.
Well lots of tears as after 24 years today was my last day of teaching.๏ฟผ
Leaving such a wonderful
@SJPS_Portsmouth
with amazing kids & staff makes it even harder but even the more special. Going to miss you all. Iโve had an absolute blast,thankyou. Just
@NEUnion
goodbyes to go!
Excited to speak up in Westminster for our city and strive to work hard to ensure Skills England will bring about the positive change we need for growth and prosperity in Pompey โค๏ธ๐น
Skills to drive growth
Skills to achieve energy security
Skills to build the homes we need
Skills to lay new infrastructure
Skills to get the NHS back on its feet
Skills to unlock opportunity
Skills England is crucial to our work to deliver the change our country needs.
โ๏ธ A gorgeous day up in Port Solent and Paulsgrove on Saturday. Thank you to everyone who took the time to stop and talk to
@UKLabour
about your concerns and ideas for the area.
You can share your views with me here (wherever you are in Portsmouth North).
Great start to the day. 12k steps already Delivering get the vote out leaflets to remind people of the importance of their vote. Thanking all the Polling Station staff for their hard work during a long day & meeting voters who have truly humbled me with kind words & positivity.
We promised to start work immediately to get the NHS back on its feet.
Meeting with staff. Asking experts in the NHS to take the lead is just the start but one Pompey with two hospitals desperately needs.
Looking forward to working with the workforce to make the change needed.
Our NHS is broken.
Today, Iโve asked Lord Darzi, an NHS surgeon for 30 years, to lead an independent investigation into the true state of the health service.
The findings will provide the basis for our 10-year plan to get the NHS back on its feet.
@thismorning
Well that was the toughest start to a Friday in a long time.
Said goodbye to my Charlie Bean as he heads off to the USA for a year.
Mixed emotions - So very proud but going to miss him so very much.
Love you kid xx
My job in the union means Iโve spent decades defending members & education & standing up for whatโs right today
#gcseresults2020
the 2nd Iโve experienced as a parent & I feel so sick & emotional
Not finding out till lunch - How Iโll chair my final Exec meeting at 1pm no tears?
We didnโt have the money of John Lewis or McDonalds but we do have our fantastic members and you canโt put a price on that.
The CWU Christmas advert is on the brink of half a million (wow) views.
Help us get there by watching and sharing ๐
Downgrading 40% students' A-level grades is outrageous & unacceptable
The Edu Sec must take responsibility
#WilliamsonResign
is a first step but not enough this Gov needs to make a real change rationing grades is not new but must stop
Ourkids have been through enough
@NEUnion
People on the doorstep in Portsmouth North are desperate for security in the bills they pay and want a secure future with opportunities for them and their families because at the moment so many say they are surviving and not living.
We need change.
Labour can bring that change
The Tories have looked the other way while water companies have pumped a tidal wave of raw sewage into our waters.
The people of Pompey deserve better.
Britain needs change.
A Labour government will make law-breaking water bosses face criminal charges.
Truly moving & humbled to have been at Fratton Park today to see the unveiling of fantastic local artist Pete Codlings HMS Victory Sail & to be featured on it! Attended my 1st game here at 10 yrs old with my Nan, Aunty and Bro so when my nanโs song played it made me cry.
Wonderful to attend the Portsmouth Armed Forces and Veterans Breakfast Club for a chat and sausage sandwich.
A fantastic local group for veterans to find support, share stories and have a delicious breakfast.
An issue that come up on the doorsteps & makes people so angry is the waste in our NHS & those who made a profit out of a national crisis whilst so many made sacrifices.
In government we promised action. Iโm so proud to be a part of this Labour gov working hard to rid injustice.
The Tories signed away billions of pounds worth of contracts to fraudsters and failed to deliver for our NHS.
@RachelReevesMP
will return stability to our public finances.