Mick Whitley

Tonight, Parliament will be dissolved and I will no longer be your Member of Parliament. Representing my home town in Parliament has been a privilege. To everyone who's supported me over the past four years - local Labour Party members, constituents, friends - thank you.

40 years ago today the first 11 of the #CammellLaird37 were arrested. They were fighting for their jobs, but they got sent to a maximum security prison. The fight for #JobsNotJail is still alive today. It’s time to clear their names. #PowerinaUnion

📣 JOBS NOT JAIL! ✊ Attending #LabourPartyConference? Why not join us afterwards to commemorate 40 years since the Cammell Laird dispute! 🚢🚩 📅 Monday 23rd September 🕰 17:00 📍 Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool One L1 3BT This is an ongoing campaign to achieve justice for the 37 workers and their families. Please stand with us in solidarity. ⚓️🪧 More details below. 👇 #JobsNotJail 🏗👷 #Justice4The37 ⚖️

Unions and campaigners pledge to win justice 40 years on for imprisoned Cammell Laird workers birkenhead.news/unions-and-cam… @MickWhitleyMP

As regeneration projects for Birkenhead are falling like nine pins, I want to know why the Council is pulling the plug on the ambitious plans to revive my home town. liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

Former Birkenhead MP slams council on future of Maritime Knowledge Hub project birkenhead.news/former-birkenh… via @BirkenheadNews

I stand in full solidarity with @HackneyAbbott. The party’s treatment of her is an insult to a political pioneer, the first black woman MP, and a loyal servant of both the Labour Party and the people of Hackney. She must be allowed to stand in Hackney North if she wants to.

Funding awarded to make Rock Ferry station accessible for all birkenhead.news/funding-awarde… @MickWhitleyMP

Good news! Following a long campaign by myself and local Labour councillors, Rock Ferry station is now a big step closer to being fully accessible with funding being allocated for delivery in 2025.

Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box. Nonviolent protest is vital to any democracy. And in the UK, it's under attack. I've tabled my last ever Early Day Motion, rejecting John Woodcock's recent report and its calls for a clamp down on peaceful protest.

I've joined forty of my colleagues in the House of Commons in writing to the water regulator @Ofwat today. Failing water companies cannot be allowed to inflation-busting price rises on ordinary people while paying out fortunes to private shareholders.

Today, I've joined over one hundred parliamentarians in reaffirming our support for the independence of the International Criminal Court. Attempts to subvert the court, and discredit its Chief Prosecutor, risk undermining the rule of law across the globe.

Gaza policy highlights our democratic deficit, writes MICK WHITLEY MP ow.ly/SuyV50RMVng

This is naked hypocrisy from @grantshapps. The government thinks that RFA seafarers are vital enough to justify them being denied their right to strike, but not vital enough to pay them a decent wage. Solidarity with @RMTunion #DefendTheRightToStrike zurl.co/PM1o

This Sunday, up to 500 seafarers with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary are going on strike for fair pay. In Birkenhead, you can support the strikers by joining their picket line at the junction of New Chester Road and Campbeltown Road from 08:30 am. zurl.co/XvVm

Does anyone believe this privatised water model is working? I put this question straight to the CEO of Ofwat. This was his response.

Members in Islington North have a right to choose who should represent them, and that should include Jeremy. The Labour Party is a broad enough church to accept Tory ERG members but not our former leader? Enough with these factional stitch ups. Let members decide.

This week, MPs met with the new Cuban ambassador to the UK @IsmaraWalter. The US blockade of Cuba continues to have devastating consequences for the Cuban economy and its people. It needs to be brought to an end.

#RomaniResistanceDay marks eighty years to the day that Romani and Sinti prisoners in Auschwitz rose up against their Nazi captors. We remember and honour their bravery and stand in solidarity with the Roma community who continue to face prejudice and discrimination worldwide.

Absolutely right.