Labour MP for Leeds East
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Your MP (Richard Burgon) represents you, and all of the people who live in Leeds East, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.
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Labour MP for Leeds East
Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election
Richard Burgon campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC
Members of Parliament (Oil and Gas Companies) Bill: Second Reading – Richard Burgon.
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) on securing this crucial debate. To boil the debate down to its essence, the situation that disabled people in our constituencies and across the country are facing can be summed up like this: too often, disabled people are scapegoated. Too often, they are treated like dirt. The social security system does not give disabled...
The hon. Member has eloquently set out an excellent example of how the system puts disabled people into an appalling situation, as we see in our constituency surgeries. The United Nations special rapporteurs described the UK’s current policy and practice as “a pervasive framework and rhetoric that devalues disabled people”, which tells disabled people that they are “undeserving...
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