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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 23h

I'm proud to have been a part of the Committee's work on this issue, and to celebrate this achievement today in Parliament, on the final day of #BabyLossAwarenessWeek

Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 23h

Earlier this year, the Women and Equalities Committee called on the Government to extend the right to bereavement leave to those who experience pre-24 week pregnancy loss.

Now, the upcoming Employment Rights Bill will realise this change, making crucial respite available when it's needed most.

Alex celebrating the extension of bereavement leave to those who suffer pre-24 week pregnancy loss.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 1d

🫡 Inspecting and reporting on whether military housing meets the Decent Homes Standard is a huge win, and something I'm incredibly pleased to see as one of the many Lib Dem MPs who campaigned for this in Parliament. Now we need to see the Standard legislated as a minimum.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 𝐋𝐈𝐁 𝐃𝐄𝐌 𝐖𝐈𝐍!

🏠 Lib Dems have long been calling for better military homes - and I asked the Minister about this recently.

🪖 Our military personnel and their families make huge sacrifices for our country, and deserve a decent home.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14d

Horrified and appalled by the attack outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

My thoughts are with the victims, our brave emergency services and the entire Jewish community.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 15d

Mandatory digital ID will do little to help with immigration enforcement, whilst harming those who struggle to access digital devices, such as older people, disabled people, and those living in poverty.

Please share the petition below to oppose this policy:

www.libdems.org.uk/nodigitalid

No to Digital ID Cards!

Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID. That’s not the kind of country we want to be. Back our petition to say no to digital ID cards.

www.libdems.org.uk

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 17d

✅ Answered the fantastic questions posed by year 2 at Tweseldown Infant School and spoke with the challenges facing early years with the Head Teacher.
✅ Felt motivated by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's speech at the end of our Autumn Conference.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 17d

✅ Met with Parish Councillors at Long Sutton who gave me a tour of the village.
✅ Visited the new Special Educational Needs Resource Unit at Fleet Infant School.
✅ Gave a speech in support of @libdems.org.uk's policy to defend women's rights across the globe.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 17d

This week started during Conference and ended in the constituency. Here are some of the things I did:
✅Carried the Baton of Hope for a small part of its journey and spoke with others about the stigma around suicide.
✅Spoke on a panel about how to improve wellbeing and the economy.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 20d

Parliament is currently on pause for the Conference season. Party conferences are a great chance for us as MPs to listen, to raise issues that are important locally and to share our vision and values.

Here's a little of what I got up to last weekend:

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 21d

There are too many lives lost to suicide.

That's why I was incredibly proud to carry the Baton of Hope today with @inclusioneducation.bsky.social @hartvolaction.bsky.social and others.

We must break the stigma and talk about suicide.

We must have and give #hope.

#SuicidePrevention #BatonOfHope

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

♂️ Met members of Fleet 41 Club in Parliament and answered their questions about politics.

🛣️ Pressed the Government on cost to the taxpayer of filling potholes instead of proper repairs.

📝 Held 1:1 constituency surgeries and progressed casework.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

🏆 Celebrated community volunteers and groups at the Hartley Wintney Community Awards.

🏫 Visited Inclusion College, in Hook, to discuss staff members' experiences of working in the SEND system.

📉 Spoke to Pre-97 Pension Justice who haven't had pension increases in line with inflation for decades.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

👮 Raised issues of rural crime with the Policing Minister, in Parliament.

🚪Kicked off the Yateley West District council by-election with our fantastic candidate Alex Drage.

🧏 Heard powerful testimony on the importance of British Sign Language for integration for people with hearing impairments.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

🧠 Met people with brain cancer and staff from the Brain Cancer Charity at a rally in Westminster.

⚖️ Called for powerful individuals like Peter Mandelson, who protect sex offenders, to be kept out of public life – at a debate in Parliament about his appointment.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

👋 Hi North East Hampshire! Ahead of party conference this weekend, I wanted to give you all a quick update on what I've been working on over the past couple of weeks:

🪖 Asked the Defence Minister in Parliament to support better homes for our armed forces sooner rather than later.

A collage of photos from Alex's various engagements over the past couple of weeks.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

(4) While I was glad to see that, in response to this report, the Government announced a review into the parental leave system, their plans for change have been greatly disappointing.

For the sake of fathers and their children, the Government must commit to longer, better-paid paternity leave.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

(3) The Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into this issue found:

A) The UK has "one of the worst leave offers in the developed world for fathers and other parents"
B) Two weeks’ paternity leave is “completely out of step with how most couples want to share their parenting responsibilities”

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

(2) By forcing dads to rapidly return to work, and mums to stay home, unequal parental leave sustains outdated gender roles.

Consequentially, the amount of time dads can spend with their kids is greatly, and unfairly, limited.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · 26d

(1) Families need flexibility, our economy needs a boost and many dads want to spend more precious time with their young children.

We could do all of this with an overhaul of our parental leave system.

A headline reading: "Urgent calls to overhaul 'broken' parental leave for dads.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · Sep 16

I stood for Parliament because I believe in higher standards and will continue to call out this kind of behaviour on all sides.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · Sep 16

This debate was called by the Conservatives, who laid it on very thick about ethics in public life. The very same people who protected Johnson while he lied, treated women appallingly and partied while people died of Covid.

Two wrongs do not make a right, but this is also rank hypocrisy.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's appalling that Mandelson was made Ambassador when connections with Epstein were known. This is how victims are silenced.

If we want to protect children against predators we must not put the protectors of paedophiles into positions of power.

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · Sep 16

Proud to support @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for our party president.

Josh Babarinde OBE MP @joshbabarinde.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thank you Alex!

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Alex Brewer MP 🔶 @alexkbrewer.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm also looking forward to seeing the new renovations the Partnership has had planned, which had to be put on hold due to the lack of a long-term lease and £40,000 legal bill.

These new clinical rooms will be a big boost for patients and staff, helping secure the future of primary care in Fleet.

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