Ruth Cadbury MP

'I won't commit UK to unlawful action,' says Starmer hitting back at Trump on Iran The Prime Minister clashed in an extraordinary bust-up with the American president over the use of UK bases by US forces to attack Iran

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The first page of a statement about Iran which can be read online here https://www.ruthcadbury.org/post/statement-from-ruth-cadbury-on-iran

The second page of a statement about Iran which can be read online here https://www.ruthcadbury.org/post/statement-from-ruth-cadbury-on-iran

I fear that the actions we are seeing in Iran risk repeating the mistakes that we have seen from successive interventions, including the 2003 Iraq War.

See my full statement below, including on why international law matters and the impact this conflict will have.

Facebook is full of pages with AI slop that pushes anti-immigration rhetoric.

The pages often have admins based abroad & I assume they profit from the large number of engagement.

Just like with the creation of the printing press & radio, social media is creating a new information conflict zone.

"School wars": Moral panic or self-fulfilling prophecy? The Metropolitan Police say they still haven't encountered a single incident relating to the viral red vs blue school wars trend. So is the threat real? And are parents unduly worried?

An interesting article from @jim.londoncentric.media at London centric.

As an MP I have noticed more & more content that is clearly designed to spread fear & disinformation.

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Statement from Ruth Cadbury on Iran ''The events that we have witnessed across Iran, and the Middle East have been extremely concerning and I know that constituents will have been watching the news with worries and fears for the future,...

I've published a slightly long statement on Iran, the rules based international order, the legacy of the Iraq War & the situation we find ourselves in.

We should be aware that the events this weekend will shape UK politics & our economy in a deep way.

www.ruthcadbury.org/post/stateme...

My work as an MP is always strengthened when I have direct examples from constituents- it really helps in advocating and sometimes a frustrating part of being an MP is people facing a genuine injustice do not get in touch with us.

I have also written to the local ICB to ask about the policies across North-West London & I will be writing to local GPs top ask what they're doing.

I've also had a chance to learn about what has worked (constituents have told me that employees have become much better with the menopause)

I was then able to raise this directly in the House of Commons and ask the Health Minister what the Government was doing to better standardise & improve the training GPs receive around the Menopause.

To tell a positive story about how scrutiny & parliament can work.

I was approached by a constituent about the poor experience women face when approaching their GP about the menopause- I then did a short call for examples on social media & received a number of case studies.

Energy bills will fall by £117 for millions of households in Great Britain from April Ofgem cap drops by 7% to £1,641 a year for consumers’ average gas and electricity costs

Really good news- this is only possible because we have a Labour Government that if focused on the affordability crisis & focused on investing in clean & green domestic energy here in the UK.

www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...

Hounslow Together Speaker Series Explores Demographic Change: Insights on Ageing, Families, Migration, and Community Inclusion On 18 February, the University of West London’s Brentford campus hosted the second instalment of the Hounslow Together Speaker Series, convening thought leaders, local partners, and community stakehol...

This was a really good event and a genuinely interdisciplinary discussion of the implications and policy responses to demographic change.

Thanks to @hounslowcouncil.bsky.social & University of West London.

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A rather shocking admission that Reform's head of policy sees a 'limited but important'' role in undoing the sexual revolution- is this undoing our abortion reforms?

Undoing the liberalisation of divorce law?

Limiting access to contraception?

Today marks the 4th Anniversary of Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Despite the Kremlin's attempt to bring down Ukraine, it remains a sovereign, independent, and democratic country defending democracy and freedom against Putin’s authoritarianism. #StandWithUkraine

What would a Reform Government do?

Now they've pledged to undo Labour's common-sense reforms which would stop unfair rent rises, end no-fault evictions & let tenants have pets.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

The challenge for any social democratic Government is that our day-to-day spending on our debt spiked because of the pandemic & because of the lost economic growth thanks to Brexit.

This means Governments have to spend on this rather than spending even more on our public services.

UK reports record-breaking budget surplus of £30.4bn in surprise boost for Rachel Reeves Largest January total since records began in 1993 is sharp reversal from December’s £11.6bn deficit

It's really positive news that the UK is having to spend less to service our debt.

The Governments approach to investing more in our infrastructure (such as $45b for Northern Rail), carrying out planning reform & investing in clean & green energy is all helping.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A picture of Ruth's letter to the Foreign Secretary- the full text can be read via this link https://www.ruthcadbury.org/post/ruth-cadbury-mp-raises-bbc-world-service-funding

The BBC World Service plays an invaluable role at a time when the world is more dangerous & more divided.

It offers a trusted & much needed voice from conflict zones around the World.

I've written to the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper urging the Government to act to keep its funding.

James Orr: 'This New Nation That’s Emerging Is Really No Nation At All' Influential conservative thinker Dr James Orr is chairing the advisory board of a new Reform-linked think tank. He talks to Noah Vickers about his ...

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He has been appointed as Director for Policy for Reform and he represents a form of politics that is outside of the mainstream and which has underpinned British society for the last 25 years.

Unlike James Orr or Reform I do not have a problem with the flag or what it represents.

''I’ll see rainbow flags everywhere. These are basically transnational, rootless, cosmopolitan ideologies that wholly repudiate the kind of national spirit... that could hold a nation of many ethnicities together.”

This is a quote from James Orr... who Nigel Farage appointed this week.

One more thing to add- as an MP I have always posted a message for Ramadan on social media (as I do for Christian, Hindu & Jewish holy days) and yet this year we've already received at least 4 offensive comments.

The return of the type of racism that I can remember in the 70s is really concerning

The role of an MP has changed so much in the past 70 years and a wide range of factors have driven it- the decline in funding & power in Local Government, social media, higher volatility in the electorate, the rise of smaller parties & state power being spread across so many different bodies.

We are not America, but in the US the average House Member will have a staff that is at 4x the size of mine & they have an entire layer of state Government below them that means US representatives don't deal with around 80% of the issues that we deal with.

We also try our best to feed our casework into my work in Westminster; I led the campaign to get justice for the loan charge victims (and saw a partial overturning of HMRCs approach) on the back of casework from constituents... and my work on leasehold reform is driven by my constituents experience.

As an office we have a number of policies in place; we refer individuals to the council when there direct issue is about a council service, we refer to legal aid solicitors or trusted charities when they need specialist advice & we have a 'good behaviour policy'.

The Afghanistan withdrawal was particularly distressing as my caseworkers were working extremely long hours to help around 300 constituents who were waiting for evacuation from Kabul.

This was done without any specialist training on conflict zones or working through a humanitarian crisis.

My staff are experienced & have helped thousands of constituents.

Their work has seen victims of domestic abuse rehoused safely and helped a family get justice after their child died in hospital.

All MPs teams will be doing this and this work goes under the radar.

I once had someone email both of our emails for the first time, leave a voicemail & post on my facebook page in the morning- who then 20 minutes later claimed that my office was 'impossible' to get in touch with.

We are human & sometimes we miss things but this shows the level of volume we face.

The vast majority of constituents who write & engage with my team are understanding, polite & really thankful but we have sadly seen an increase in abuse & rude behaviour.

This chimes with what teachers & NHS staff have told me they are facing- something has changed.