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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 February 2026

Debate

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Contribution

What we have is a huge inequality of arms between those who are trying to support public health and to support people to eat healthily, and technology and huge multinational companies that want to make massive profits. It is crucial that we give mayors the power to take some action to rein this in. It is late in the evening. Let us be really optimistic and think about how instead of billboards we could have more public art, more community spaces and more trees. Let us give mayors some power to start to reshape their communities for people rather than for multinational corporations.

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