Gavin Shuker

The Labour Party was right to set four tests for a new runway. Heathrow meets them. The last full length runway in the South East of England was constructed in the 1940s. To say a decision on expanding aviation capacity is long overdue is…

This is one of a series of articles to mark Shared Economy, Shared Power, the Co-operative Party annual conference which runs from Friday 9 September to Sunday 11 September in Cardiff. Whether it be elections in our sister party, a change…

This week we’ve seen an emergence of reports and statistics that make plain the true scale of the battle we face in achieving a gender equal world. From the appalling revelations in Oxfordshire and Rochester which have exposed the systemic…

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the most brutal forms of violence against women and girls. Defiling, traumatic and wholly unjustifiable - it robs young girls of their bodily integrity and puts them at risk of a lifetime of health…

Last week, David Cameron declared Afghanistan as “mission accomplished”. Whilst we should be very proud of what British Service Personnel have achieved, it’s also clear – as Vernon Coaker commented – that Cameron’s comments were premature…

This week’s ‘The Cruel Cut’, a poignant, honest, brutal and deeply thought-provoking documentary that followed the quest of Leyla Hussein - a truly inspirational woman - shed light on the infliction of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on…

By Gavin Shuker MP Today could be a very interesting day in the House of Commons. A Backbench Business Motion jointly laid by a cross party alliance of Jim Fitzpatrick, Mark Pritchard and Bob Russell will seek to force the government to ban…