Monday 20th February 2012
Bolton South East Yasmin Qureshi MP welcomed Labour leader Ed Miliband to Bolton on Friday (17th Feb) when he visited Royal Bolton Hospital.
Together with Yasmin and Shadow Health Minister Andy Burnham MP he visited a children’s ward at the hospital before holding talks with health staff at the Bolton Science and Technology Centre where gave a keynote speech blasting the Government’s new Health and Social Care Bill.
Health workers spoke to him about the difficulties facing the NHS in the face of Government cuts and re-organisations but that Bolton is very passionate about protecting the NHS.
Ed Miliband was told to “Take a message back that Bolton will fight tooth-and-nail for the NHS.”
At the end of the session Mr Miliband said: “We have learned more here in one hour than a week at Westminster.”
He added: “The Prime Minister made solemn promises before the election to the country. He has broken all these promises and more. It is bad for our NHS and bad for politics.
“He should drop his NHS Bill and at least restore one of his broken promises. He should listen to doctors and nurses and the 140,000 who have signed the petition urging him to drop the Health Bill.”
Following the visit to the hospital, Yasmin invited Ed Miliband to meet Labour Party members at Farnworth and Kearsley Labour Club to celebrate Bolton South East winning the national winter membership recruitment challenge, and to present the winning member with an iPad 2.
Monday 30th January 2012
‘Follow your dreams’ was the message from Bolton South East MP, Yasmin Qureshi, to girls at Gilnow Primary School in Halliwell last week.
The ‘Go Gilnow Girls’ event, held on Friday 27th January, was head teacher Jo Riley’s idea to help girls from Years 5 and 6 think about their aspirations for the future. And guest [...]
Monday 30th January 2012
A business centre which provides space for start-up businesses in Bolton with ‘easy in, easy out’ rental deals has won praise from Bolton South East MP, Yasmin Qureshi.
The Swan Centre, at Swan Mills on Higher Swan Lane, Great Lever, opened in 2003 after a £2m refurbishment of what was the largest mill in the world [...]
Wednesday 25th January 2012
This week Yasmin Qureshi MP signed a Book of Commitment in the House of Commons, in doing so pledging her commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those who died during the Holocaust.
Friday January 27th will mark the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and extermination camp which is the site of [...]
Friday 20th January 2012
I was very disappointed that the Daylight Savings Private Members Bill was wrecked in the House of Commons today when it ran out of time.
I’ll continue to support the Lighter Later campaign though. Evidence suggests that moving an hour of light from the early morning to the evening could make roads safer, cut the UK’s [...]