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…
Hilary Benn MP Standing up for Leeds Central
News from Hilary
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…
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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…
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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…
Hilary’s Article for the Yorkshire Evening Post
There are moments when you can glimpse what the future will look like and I had one of those last Friday. You might not necessarily associate such a revelation with sewage, but in this case it’s true. I was visiting Knostrop in Leeds where Yorkshire Water has its biggest sewage…
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