Weekly updates - Olivia Blake

Weekly updates

Olivia’s weekly round up: 17.09.21

❌Despite the UK’s ban on fur, we continue to import & sell tens of millions of £s of fur products each year. This must stop. For as long as we’re trading these products, we’re complicit in their production. This week I spoke during a debate on banning the fur trade.…

Olivia’s weekly round up: 10.09.21

🦅This week I joined RSPB at their Parliamentary launch to hear about their 2030 strategy for nature recovery and thank them for all their vital work pushing for action on species and biodiversity decline. 🌱I also spoke at a CPRE event to welcome the launch of their new hedgerow research…

Olivia’s weekly round up: 20th August

🌍 Thank you to everyone who has written to me about the horrific situation in Afghanistan. The heartbreaking scenes in Kabul must be a reminder to us all: people fleeing violence and suffering should always be welcome here. We must secure amnesty for Afghans in the UK, provide safe routes,…

Olivia’s weekly round up: 23rd July

Earlier this year the Environmental Audit committee said the Government had ‘no strategy indicating how new biodiversity policies will work together’, calling their approach ‘toothless’ and ‘devoid of effective delivery mechanisms’. This week I questioned the Environment Minister on their lack of any plan to halt and reverse the nature…

Olivia’s weekly round up: 16th July

🏥 This week the Government’s Health and Care Bill returned to parliament for its second reading. Rather than learning the lessons of the last 9 years of creeping privatisation in our NHS, the Tories have doubled down on the failures. Labour will fight this Bill – which will lead to…

Olivia’s weekly round up: 9th July

🦔On Monday I called on the Government to introduce stronger protections for hedgehogs and all endangered species, during a Westminster Hall debate. If we’re aiming for species abundance then raising the threshold for species protections is a step in the wrong direction. We shouldn’t wait for species to become critically…

Olivia’s weekly roundup: 25th June

🏥 Last week I held a debate in Parliament – on the recent findings of the Lancet report into miscarriage and the state of miscarriage care in the UK. A re-focus on miscarriage is desperately needed, and long overdue. The days of leaving women to suffer in silence must become a…

Olivia’s weekly roundup: 11th June

🌊 On Tuesday it was World Ocean Day. As Shadow Minister for Nature, Water and Flooding I attended the debate in Westminster Hall and called on the Government to implement a strategy to protect and restore our oceans. I also wrote a piece for Bright Green which you can read…

Olivia’s weekly roundup: 28th May

🌱 Last week I was appointed the Shadow Minister for Nature, Water and Flooding. I am very pleased to be joining the Shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) team. We urgently need to tackle the nature and ecological emergency and I can’t wait to work with my…

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