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By Lisa Nandy MP and Teresa Pearce MP Update: At tonight's EMA event, Andy Burnham announced that there will be a parliamentary vote on the scrapping of the education maintenance allowance. There was not previously going to be a vote as it…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy There's a definite end of term feel to parliament this week. We don't officially rise until Tuesday but the last late night sitting was this week and people are starting to drift off back to their…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy Much has been made by the media of whether Ed Miliband is performing well at PMQs. I happen to think he is, but a question posed to me on Radio 5 Live by a journalist this week made me wonder if the real…
By Lisa Nandy / @lisanandy I was drawn in the ballot for Prime Minister's Questions this week. Being listed at PMQs is like firing a starting gun; once the signal has gone out, the requests begin to flood in. There is no shortage of…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy This week brought another round of protests from students who are undeniably and understandably furious about the government's attack on the their educational prospects and the prospects of the young people who…
By Lisa Nandy / @lisanandy As LabourList and so many 'tweeters' have rightly pointed out this week, the dominance of coverage on the royal wedding and the sheer amount of news has given the government the perfect opportunity to bury bad…
By Lisa Nandy / @lisanandy Readers may be aware of the New Schools Network, which was set up back in December to lobby the government on free schools and in June of this year was awarded half a million pounds of tax-payers money to…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy I've written extensively on LabourList about the impact the coalition's right wing agenda will have on my constituents in Wigan and hundreds of thousands like them up and down the country. While it is right…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy This week everyone has, quite rightly, been talking about the Coalition's slash and burn approach to housing benefit and the consequences it will have for whole swathes of London and the South East. The outrage…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy This week parliament came to life for the first time since I was elected in May. It started on Tuesday when the TUC held a mass lobby to protest against the cuts that were to come. I made my way into Central…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy This week - the first back after conference recess - the end of universal child benefits and the Browne Review recommendation to lift the cap on tuition fees dominated discussion in the commons. Despite Ed…
By Lisa Nandy MP / @lisanandy It has been quite a week for the Tories. First Michael Gove announced he was scrapping the rule that teachers cannot have physical contact with children - a rule that has never existed. Next Boris Johnson…
