Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove.
Promoted by Dan Mazhar on behalf of David Williams both at Bevan House, Epworth Street, Stoke, ST4 1NU
Officially sworn in as YOUR MP for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove.
Representing you will be an honour, the hard work starts now, let’s bring change to our area.
❤️🌹
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
It will be one of the greatest honours of my life to represent the area I’m from as your MP.
I aim to be a strong voice that you can be proud of and I’ll continue fighting for what’s right for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove.
🌹
Perhaps Jonathan Gullis MP should have looked at his party’s track record before calling constituents scrotes and scumbags:
❌Sacked 42 street cleaners
❌Blocked plans to increase enforcement
❌Doubled cost for bulky waste collections
❌Removed 1000 bins
❌Refused CCTV plans.
🌹Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove🌹
✅ I'm so humbled to have been selected as Labour's candidate for Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove. The hard work starts now.
✅ Our movement is lucky to have such committed & talented candidates & I know we'll be working closely together.
🌹 It was great to meet with Angela Rayner today with fellow candidates from Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.
I discussed with Angela the key issues that you have raised with me and we also spoke about Labour’s plan for change for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove.
👍 Proud of our area
✅ I'm getting some funny looks across London... but if you know you know!
️✅️ Pleased to see our brilliant products across the Parliamentary Estate & at different venues.
✅️ I've started speaking to other venues who've made the wrong choices 😁
🤝 STOKE-ON-TRENT NORTH AND KIDSGROVE 🤝
✅ Having spoken to a number of residents across the area, I'm pleased to announce that I will be putting in my application to be the next candidate for the Labour Party, and hopefully the next MP, in Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove.
1/2
🌹LABOUR GAIN: STOKE NORTH & KIDSGROVE🌹
✅ Well done Sarah Pickup, our fantastic new Parish Councillor for Talke & Butt Lane.
✅ Sarah is so hard working and is ready to get going right away!
Result:
🔴 Sarah Pickup - 570
🔵 John Alcock - 361
🗳️ Rejected ballots - 10
✅ Week One - COMPLETE
After an intense few days of training in Westminster, I'm looking forward to getting back home and listening to residents.
I will do all I can to make life better for everyone living and working in Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove. ❤️
⏳️ 4 HOURS TO VOTE FOR CHANGE⏳️
✅️ Great to be out with Joan Walley who served our community brilliantly for 28 years. We're loving being out listening to what matters most to you and your family.
✅️ If you want change you have to vote for it! Remember: ID to vote 🗳 .
📝 Parliament Update!
✅️ Since you kindly elected me, I've been having my induction!
✅️ Yesterday was my first time in the Chamber to see the Speaker elected. I'll be sworn in by Thursday.
✅️ I can't wait to get to work fully to representing you! Back in Stoke Friday.
✅ As your MP I will continue to support people, increase police on our streets, invest in our high streets, support local businesses and deliver more doctors, GPs and dentists.
🗳️ On July 4, Vote Change. Vote Labour.
⬇️ I'm on the longlist ⬇️
✅ Really pleased to announce that I am on the longlist for selection for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove.
✅ I'm made by our area. I care about our communities and I want the very best for every single resident.
❤️ Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove
👋 Out on your doorsteps! 👋
✅ It was great to welcome
@jessphillips
MP, Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence & Safeguarding, to Smallthorne & Burslem this evening!
✅ Jess was also out meeting residents in Sandford Hill earlier
✅ It's time for change locally & nationally!
🌹 IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE...
...but if you want it you have to vote for it
We have been out from Mow Cop to Middleport, Stockton Brook to Smallthorne, Talke Pits to Tunstall, Butt Lane to Burslem & everywhere in between
I hope to listen to many more of you over the coming days.
🤦£15M CAR PARK ON A SAT BEFORE CHRISTMAS 🤦
➡️ Despite the Conservatives offering £1/day to park in their new £15M Hanley car park, this is how it looked at 2PM today, a week before Christmas.
➡️ Not a single car from floor two up
➡️ Lifts are out of action, water pouring in.
A quick 🧵 about how the local Conservative MP the real
@JEGullisnotMP
operates and this was flagged to me by about 5 residents in the ward I am proud to represent of Little Chell, Mill Hill and Stanfields. Now I am a Stoke Labour Councillor but I work hard for everyone. 1/4
Those that complain the most about cancel culture do the most cancelling. So the
@bbc
cancels Gary Lineker as a result of political pressure...
Just like Jonathan Gullis who cancels his own constituents for simply asking questions. I've been in the cancelled club for a while!
Thank you so much to Daniel Flynn for his support.
I’ve been lucky to work with Danny for 18 years, he has been a fantastic inspiration to me and has helped to shape the person you see today.
I’ll continue to give heart to the area I love and I’m proud to call home.
🌹 THANK YOU KYLE! 🌹
I'm delighted to have the support of Kyle Robinson, former Mayor of Kidsgrove & former Councillor for Butt Lane & Talke.
Kyle loves our area to bits & he's worked incredibly hard for our community over the years. Your support means so much Kyle - thanks!
👍 THANK YOU! 👍
✅ It is exactly a year ago today that I was selected to be Labour's MP candidate for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove.
✅ Since then, I've listened to thousands of you so that I can really understand what matters most to you, your family and your community.
Today, Cllr Jane Ashworth, leader of
@SoTLabour
, & I have written to Jonathan Gullis MP to ask whether he intends to accept a payout despite working for fewer than 50 days as Under-Secretary of State for School Standards
If he does, this should go in full to local organisations.
🌹Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme 🌹
✅ We now have a full team of prospective Labour candidates selected!
✅
@david4lcs
Stoke North,
@AllisonCGardner
Stoke South,
@gareth_snell
Stoke Central,
@AJogee
Newcastle.
✅ We'll work as a team to bring the change our area needs.
🌹OUT ACROSS STOKE NORTH & KIDSGROVE🌹
✅️ We're out listening to residents day in day out, from Mow Cop to Middleport, from Baddeley Green to Burslem, Stockton Brook to Smallthorne & everywhere in between
✅️ Come join us
✅️ It's time for change across Stoke N & Kidsgrove
🌹KINGSWOOD BYELECTION
✅ Great to be out on the doorsteps for
@damienegan
.
✅ It's clear that people want change & Labour has a plan.
✅ 'Team Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove' has teamed up with some brilliant students from 'Team Cardiff University'! Great conversations.
In Stoke-on-Trent, Labour is under new management with our fantastic local leader Cllr Jane Ashworth. Here are our candidates announced so far. Lots of experience & lots of new faces - all committed to making our communities fantastic places to live. It's time for change in 2023.
Brilliant conversations on the doors across Harriseahead, Newchapel, Burslem & Sandyford and I also went along to the launch of the brand-new skate park on Monks Neil Park (looks amazing 🤩)
Great to speak to local residents & community groups who also put me through my paces!🥊
🌹LET'S MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES SAFER🌹
Today we welcomed Keir Starmer and Labour shadow ministers to Stoke-on-Trent at Port Vale. Immediately afterwards, we went out onto the doorsteps of Burslem and surrounding areas to listen to you.
➡️ A quick thread 🧵
1/5
⬇️ FIRST IMAGES OF CONSERVATIVES' *SECOND* £20M CAR PARK RELEASED
🚗 The Council has submitted plans for its latest Hanley Car Park.
🚗 Don't call it a car park though. It has 645 parking spaces, but they'd like you to call it a 'mobility hub' instead (honestly, their words).
🎉 HAPPY 2024 🎉
✅ In 2023, I was delighted to be re-elected as Councillor for the brill ward of Little Chell, Mill Hill & Stanfields & selected as Labour's candidate for Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove.
✅ I promise to keep working hard for residents. Have a wonderful 2024.
✂️ STOKE TORIES VOTE TO FUND CONSULTANTS NOT SERVICES
➡️Tories reject plan I put forward to protect museums, children's centres & libraries
➡️Labour proposed taking £1m out of external consultants budget & instead protect services
➡️Tories voted to protect £ for consultants
😡"NOTHING LASTS FOREVER - BEST TO GET RID"😡
➡️ Seven words the Conservative Deputy Leader (Heritage Lead) sent to approve the demolition of Capo.
➡️ Why did the Conservative Leader allow contractors to be blamed for a “significant operational error” when her deputy knew?
1/2
🌹IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE 🌹
Research by Nationwide shows more than 1 in five households in Stoke-on-Trent & Kidsgrove have less than £100 spare each month–twice as many as two years ago.
69% of families are more worried about their finances than last year.
It's time for change.
👋 HELLO KIDSGROVE 👋
✅ Such a brilliant response on so many doorsteps across Kidsgrove today.
✅ Lots of important conversations ranging from the NHS to antisocial behaviour.
✅ So important to listen directly to residents.
#VoteLabour
#StokeOnTrentNorthAndKidsgrove
🌹MID BEDFORDSHIRE 🌹
✅ Team
@SoTLabour
has been out on the doorsteps of Flitwick today
✅ Speaking to residents, it's clear they want change. They are fed up of having an absent MP
✅ Lots of positivity for
@alistrathern
on the doorsteps - he's the right person for the job!
Team
#StokeOnTrentNorthKidsgrove
had a great time getting out and listening to residents in Selby & Ainsty for our brilliant
@UKLabour
candidate
@Mather_Keir
this weekend.
It’s so close. Every vote will count so please make sure you use your voice and vote for a fresh start.
of the pothole in the graphic he posted has already been reported by me (I walk the ward weekly) & the ref number is CAA003384 and I'm already getting it fixed. Regardless of a councillor or MPs party, all should be pleased councillors do their jobs well. What a state of affairs.
@journoontheedge
For clarity Richard, I've never blocked Jonathan Gullis or any other Councillor or candidate from any other party. The block was very much one way. When Gullis posted a story saying Labour was anti-monarchy, I simply responded with the attached photo. This resulted in a block.
🏳️🌈 STOKE PRIDE 🏳️🌈
A great day out at Stoke Pride. Around 12,000 people celebrating together in love and friendship.
It's great to see the event grow year on year & there were so many organisations attending too. Great to see. Thanks to all the organisers
@SOTPride
!
#BeProud
🌹Thanks everyone🌹
✅ I want to say a huge thank you to all the local people who've backed me
✅ I've worked locally with some incredible people within the party, the unions & with community groups - some for two decades. The one thing we all want is the very best for our area
✉️ WHAT MATTERS MOST TO YOU? ✉️
✅ As your Labour candidate for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove, I want to hear what matters most to you, your family, your friends and your community.
✅ Please complete my survey below:
😠SMITHFIELD CAR PARK SHOCKER: £265,000 LOSS IN JUST THREE MONTHS 😠
➡️ £265,000 of YOUR money was lost by the Conservative-led Council within 3 months of opening.
➡️ This is real money which will now not be available to spend on filling the potholes which blight our roads. 1/3
Tulip Sadiq asks the prime minister about the welfare of 200 unaccompanied migrant children who’ve gone missing.
Tory MP Jonathan Gullis heckles ‘well they shouldn’t have come here illegally’.
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Tory Party find a new low
#PMQs
🌹LISTENING TO YOU🌹
✅ Over recent days, we've spoken to so many residents so that we can truly understand what matters most to you.
✅ Thanks
@AlexNorrisNN
&
@EmilyThornberry
(Shadow Levelling Up Minister/Shadow Attorney General) for joining us!
✅ We love our area!
#Labour
Awkward moments of silence on
@BBCRadioStoke
as PM Liz Truss has no answers for residents in our city. The same response to every question on every local BBC radio station regardless of the actual question asked. Like the famous comedy sadly Liz is basically saying AM I BOVVERED.
Great as ever to be out meeting residents with
@RuthSmeeth
in Stanfields. Fab discussions in the best ward in the city (not that I am biased of course!) and delighted that we were joined by
@jessphillips
. So much at stake in this election. Please
#VoteLabour
#GeneralElection2019
🚘 WATCH: SMITHFIELD CAR PARK TAKEN OVER BY RACERS 🚘
➡️ Conservative Leader Abi Brown says this is the safest car park in the city
➡️ Imagine returning to your car trying to get through all these speeding cars
➡️ Residents of Clayworks been raising this since it opened..
1/2
💓 FAMILY TIME
✅ I hope everyone's having a lovely Bank Holiday. Some reminiscing with my parents today!
✅ We've been to Tunstall Park, for a bite to eat at Arabellas in Baddeley Green and up to Mow Cop. Dad thinks he's prob best not trying to run to the top like he used to!
🎭 TOBY JONES AT CLAYBODY THEATRE 🎞️
✅ On Saturday, I had a really enjoyable evening listening to the incredible stage and screen actor Toby Jones. Toby was in conversation with the equally brilliant Deborah McAndrew (
@mca_debbie
)
@claybodytheatre
.
1/2
👋 FIRST DOOR KNOCK OF 2024 👋
✅ Great first door knock session of 2024!
✅ Residents in Middleport are so pleased with their hard-working local councillor & Council Leader Jane Ashworth.
✅ The welcome was warm & the discussions so important.
#StokeOnTrentNorthAndKidsgrove
🌹 STOKE-ON-TRENT SOUTH & THE VILLAGES🌹
✅ Today I joined
@AllisonCGardner
, Labour's fantastic candidate for Stoke-on-Trent South & the Villages, in Blythe Bridge.
✅ Fab conversations listening to what matters most to residents. Great seeing our
@MoorlandsLabour
friends too.
👍 It was great to welcome
@Keir_Starmer
to Stoke-on-Trent last week where he outlined our mission to make our streets safe, to prevent crime, to punish criminals, and to protect communities. 👍
🤩We've spent bank holiday Monday out across the area listening to what matters the most to you, your family, friends & neighbours
I love spending time chatting with you about how we can make Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove a better & safer place to live & work 🏡.
#VoteLabour
🌹Well Done🌹
✅ So pleased
@AllisonCGardner
has been selected as Labour candidate for Stoke South.
✅ Allison's incredibly hard working. Can't wait to campaign together!
✅ Stoke-on-Trent deserves better. Allison,
@gareth_snell
& I will be working to bring about that change.
Really disappointed that local Tory MPs Jack Brereton (Stoke South) & Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) are among 50 signatories backing a Lottery to fund a new
#RoyalYacht
. Have a look around our constituencies.. food banks, homelessness, continued austerity, falling wages. Priorities?
😢REMINDER: GLADSTONE POTTERY MUSEUM CLOSED DUE TO CONSERVATIVE FUNDING CUTS UNTIL SPRING
➡️ Earlier this year, Labour Councillors tried to stop the closure of Gladstone Museum but Conservative councillors - who run the Council - forced it through. It reopens 1 April 2023. 1/2
❤️ Little Chell, Mill Hill and Stanfields ❤️
✅ I've been back out on my ward walks today. Had some lovely chats as I've been delivering my newsletter. Thanks!🙏
✅ Taken some new casework issues from my walk today to sort out too. What a lovely sunset we have had this evening!
🙋 LISTENING TO YOU 🙋
✅ Every day, I'm out on doorsteps across Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove listening to what you care about the most.
✅ To best represent your interests, I'm hoping you'll complete my survey. It takes 30 seconds.
✅ Click here:
😡 CONSERVATIVE PLAN TO CUT CARERS PAY
➡️ At the council's budget meeting, the Conservatives only proposal was to CUT pay for our carers
➡️ They want hard-working carers who look after our families to pay the price for years of Tory mismanagement locally & nationally. Shameful.
🌹LISTENING TO RESIDENTS IN KIDSGROVE🌹
✅ Rain didn't stop us!
✅ It was brilliant to listen to so many residents - thanks for taking the time to talk to us
✅ Every single conversation matters. I learn not only about any concerns you may have but also your hopes for our area
🌹LISTENING TO YOU🌹
✅ We've listened to hundreds of you across Burslem & Tunstall today - thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us on your doorsteps across
#StokeNorth
✅ Teams have also been out across all parts of our city
✅ We♥️our community. Labour
#OnYourSide
Speaking to you, I know you want more security at work & better conditions. Today we were in Goldenhill & Norton talking about our plans.
1️⃣ Rights from day 1
💷 A genuine living wage
🚮 Repeal anti-union laws
🛑 Ban 0 hr contracts
🚫 End fire/rehire
🤒 Raise sick pay
➕ more!
Lovely to join
@LeighIngham1
and the
@StaffordLabour
team listening to residents this afternoon.
We had some excellent conversations and I'm very pleased to support Leigh who really would be an excellent MP for Stafford and the villages.
Out as always listening to residents. This morning I've delivered my latest newsletter in Tunstall, spent two hours listening to residents in Baddeley Green & off out again now to the wonderful ward of Little Chell, Mill Hill and Stanfields.
@SoTLabour
#OnYourSide
We ❤️ our area.
So much for levelling up under this Conservative government. Stoke on Trent ripped off yet again. Less money than we were given as EU members. Levelling up means real investment in people and place. Not just a soundbite whilst actually giving our city LESS money than before.
At the council I was shocked that Stoke Conservative councillors said that residents should get used to having less money as a result of cuts to
#UniversalCredit
. £1040 cut for OVER 50% of families with kids in our city. It really is shameful. My speech:
🕳️ STOKE-ON-TRENT AMONGST WORST AREAS FOR POTHOLE REPAIRS 🕳️
➡️ We all knew it was nonsense when the Conservatives claimed they are on top of potholes across the city.
➡️ Independent evidence shows the city was the THIRD SLOWEST area to fix potholes in the whole country.
1/2
⬇️ This support from
@Kyle_Robinson22
means so much to me. People often talk to me about Kyle when I am out listening to residents across Kidsgrove. Thank you!
🗳️ Excited to support
@david4lcs
for MP in Stoke-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove, Butt Lane, and Talke! He will work hard and stand up for everyone. Trust him with your vote at the next General Election.
#VoteDavidWilliams
#VoteLabour
🌹
Well I suppose it's only fitting that alongside so many of
@JEGullisnotMP
constituents who have already been blocked, I have finally been 'cancelled' by him.
🌹 OUT IN GOLDENHILL 🌹
✅ We've been out today in Goldenhill.
✅ Lots of detailed conversations including antisocial behaviour, crime, the NHS & social care.
✅ It was great to talk through Labour's plans to make life better for residents of Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove.
🌹OUT IN GOLDENHILL🌹
✅ We've just finished knocking on every door on the estate by the Chatterley Whitfield Pub.
✅ Thanks to everyone for speaking to us.
✅ Issues raised again included nuisance bikes, problems with parking and cuts to services over the past decade.
✅ OUT IN BURSLEM THIS EVENING ✅
➡️ We've had some really great conversations around Burslem ward
➡️ Thank you for speaking to us. I love being out listening to you
➡️ Issues this evening included places where kids can play safely & concerns over cuts to mental health serices
Nicky is a Community Development Manager who has always lived in Little Chell, Mill Hill and Stanfields. Here Nicky talks about my commitment to building strong communities and attracting funding for our city. Please lend me your support on Thursday.
#VoteLabour2May
👋 OUT IN GOLDENHILL 👋
✅ It was really enjoyable speaking to residents around Goldenhill today.
✅ Thank you to everyone who took time out to speak to me. We had some really interesting conversations and with every conversation I learn more about what really matters to you.
🌹STOKE-ON-TRENT NORTH & KIDSGROVE
✅ I'm delighted to receive endorsement from Fred Hughes (my mum & dad love to read every word Fred writes and are thrilled too!)
✅ Fred understands our area inside out. His significant contribution to Stoke-on-Trent is incredible. Thank you!
🌹OUT IN TUNSTALL🌹
✅ We've been out this evening listening to residents around Spitfire Way & streets off it. We'll be back our across the rest of the estate soon
✅ Conversations included car racing on Reginald Mitchell Way & onto the estate, lack of grass cutting, mortgages
Today is Small Business Saturday. Across Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove we have an incredible array of fantastic small businesses that keep our community going. Let's support them!
🤝 MEETING RESIDENTS ACROSS THE CITY 🤝
✅ We've been out in Stoke North & across the city listening to you.
✅ In Stoke North, we've been out in Tunstall, Baddeley Green, Burslem, Sneyd Green & Moorcroft.
✅ Thanks to everyone who spoke with me and the Labour Team today.
🏥 MEETING AT THE ROYAL STOKE 🏥
✅ Thank you Tracy Bullock, Chief Executive
@UHNM_NHS
, who met with me to discuss a range of issues inc challenges facing our local health services.
✅ The Royal Stoke & Stafford Hospitals have looked after me & my family for over 40 years.
1/2
🌹 Thank you Sylvia! 🌹
✅ Cllr Sylvia Dymond is someone I have followed for such a long time.
✅ I don't think I have ever met someone as passionate about serving the community as Sylvia.
✅ So to have these words from you means so much. Thank you!
So proud that our Community Housing Project
@ymcans
right here in Stoke-on-Trent has been named Housing Project of the Year at the awards tonight.
Well done to a top team of colleagues.
HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR
The Community Housing Project,
@ymcans
!🎉
Congratulations to this inspiring project helping young people move towards independent living affordably, enabling them to flourish with community and support services.
#YMCA
#YouthMattersAwards
🌹Thank you Jane Ashworth🌹
✅ So pleased to have the support of Cllr Jane Ashworth OBE.
✅ Jane is an absolutely fantastic leader of the Labour Group. Under her leadership she has revitalised the party across the city.
This is shocking ⬇️
Rishi Sunak tries to pull a PR stunt but when someone tries to tell him about the problems their daughter has faced with a seven hour wait he laughs and simply walks off.
Exclusive footage of Rishi Sunak challenged this morning by a former health worker on the state of the NHS, - captured by an off duty
@skynews
camera operator
👍Smallthorne👍
✅ Out this evening with Councillor Diane Williams and the Labour Team across Smallthorne.
✅ Diane has already established herself as a brilliant local councillor. It's great to be out working alongside our councillors across Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove.