Hilary Benn MP

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Hilary’s Article for South Leeds Life – October 2019

The latest recipient of a Leeds Civic trust blue plaque is The Holbeck. Known by most people as the Holbeck Working Men’s Club, it is the oldest such club in the country. It began life in 1871 as a community organisation with less than a hundred members. Into the 20th…

Hilary’s Article for South Leeds Life – September 2019

Motorways don’t generally run through the middle of residential areas, so doing repairs and maintenance…

Crisis in Jammu and Kashmir

I have today written to the Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on behalf of my many Kashmiri constituents who have contacted me about recent disturbing events in Jammu and Kashmir. I am gravely concerned by India’s unilateral decision to withdraw the region’s autonomy – by revoking Article…

Hilary’s Article for South Leeds Life – August 2019

Someone asked me the other day why MPs use the term advice surgery. Well, I replied, we do give advice but we’re not doctors. But that’s not how one person saw it. The first person who turned up at my very first advice surgery as a councillor many years ago…

Hilary Benn MP speaks out in support of Alzheimer’s Society dementia care campaign

On Tuesday 9th July, I joined 120 other Members of Parliament at an Alzheimer’s Society…

Hilary at Hunslet Gala 2019

Last Saturday, I had the honour of opening of the Hunslet Gala, it was a wonderful…

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