I was delighted in June 2007 I won the campaign to become Deputy Leader of the Labour party. It is an honour and a privilege to be elected to serve along side Gordon Brown.

Since I was elected I have been campaigning all over the UK. So far I have visited:

2010

February - Yorkshire and Humber Regional Conference

February - Barking Visit

February - Arts Centre and Campaigning Visit, Swindon

February - Visit to Eltham SureStart Centre

February - Leicester Brite Centre and SureStart visit

January - Quarterly Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) Meeting, London

January - Prospective Parliamentary Candidates Event, London

January - Hackney Labour Women's Forum, London

January - Labour Party Members Dinner, Brent

January - Labour Party Members Burns Supper, Edinburgh

2009

December - East Midlands Labour Party Members Awards Dinner, Nottingham

December - Labour Party Members Annual Christmas Dinner, Harlow

November - Labour Party By-Election campaigning, Glasgow North East

November - North-West Labour Party Regional Conference, Southport

November - Labour Party campaigning, West Lancashire

November - BNP Taskforce Meeting, London

November - East Midlands Labour Party Members meeting, Nottingham

November - Meeting with Young Labour, London

November - East of England Labour Party Regional Conference, Stevenage

November - Labour Party campaigning, Oxford

November - Oxford University Labour Party Dinner, Oxford

November - Labour Party By-Election campaigning, Glasgow North East

October - Visit to Cardiff North Constituency, Cardiff

October - Women's Race and Equality Meeting, London

October - Labour Party campaigning, Luton North

October - Labour Party Members Dinner, Ealing Southall

October - Quarterly Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) Meeting, London

June - Labour Party Campaigning, Islington South

May - Labour Party Campaigning, Brixton

May - Labour Party Campaigning, Bassetlaw

May - Labour Party Campaigning, Newcastle

May - Labour Party Campaigning, Bristol

May - Surestart visit, Milton Keynes

May - BAME bus, London Lauch, Southall

May - Judith Hart Lecture, Scotland

April - Labour's Welsh Conference, Swansea

April - Campaigning in Amber Valley

April - Campaigning in Pendle

April - Labour's National Youth Event, Gillingham

April - Labour's Local Government Confernence, London

April - Labour's South East Regional Conference, Gillingham

March - Labour's Scottish Conference, Dundee

March - LGBT campaign launch, Soho, London

February- Sheffield Regional Conference

February - Visit to the Brussels EPLP

February- Launch BAME campaign bus

February - Southampton Regional Cabinet and meeting with local party members

February - Bristol NPF & S West regional conference

January - Liverpool Cabinet + meeting with local Party members



2008

January - Gt Yarmouth meeting Party members and talking with voters

January - Lowestoft Party members and Q&A with Bob Blizzard MP

January - Edinburgh meeting Party members and talking with voters

January - Burns Night supper with Nigel Griffiths MP, local members and others

Feb -Brussels Speech at The Centre to MEPs members and others

Feb - Llandudno, speech to Wales Labour Party Conference and speaking at Welsh Women’s Summit

Feb - Stevenage Constituency Labour Party dinner with Barbara Follett MP

Feb - Birmingham Labour Party Spring Conference

March - Hastings Constituency Labour Party dinner with Mike Foster MP

March - Hove, South East Labour Party Conference

March - Stevenage Launch of local elections campaign with Prime Minister and Barbara Follett MP

March -Scotland Scottish Labour Conference

April - Southwark Campaigning for Ken Livingstone and Labour’s Greater London Authority candidates

April - Bolton and Oldham Campaigning with local government candidates

April - Tower Hamlets Campaigning with Greater London Authority candidates

April - Sheffield Campaigning with local government candidates

April - Plymouth campaigning with local government candidates

April - Campaigning in Oxford East with Labour students and Andrew Smith MP

April - Nuneaton & Coventry campaigning with local government candidates

May - Crewe/Nantwich Campaign visit to by election

June - Henley Campaign visit to by election

July - Nottingham, East Midlands Labour Party Conference

July - Glasgow East Campaign visit for by election

September - Birmingham Cabinet meeting in West Midlands and Q&A with Local Party members

September - Basildon, meeting Party members and talking to voters with Angela Smith MP

September - Manchester Labour Party Annual Conference

October -Ramsgate Thanet South constituency Labour Party dinner with Steve Ladyman MP

November - St Austell, Cornwall - Labour Conference, with Ben Bradshaw and Labour’s South West MPs and activists

November - Glenrothes Campaign visit to by election

November - Ipswich , Labour Party Regional Conference

November - London London Labour Party Biennial meeting

November - Southport, North West Regional Conference

November - Leeds Cabinet meeting in Yorkshire and Q&A with party members

December - Portsmouth Constituency Labour Party dinner with Sarah McCarthy Fry MP

December - Gloucester Constituency Labour Party dinner with Parmjit Dhanda MP

2007

Gillingham, Rainham, Ramsgate

Bournemouth

Corby

Rugby

Durham

Reading

Crawley

Cardiff North

Wales LP Womens Forum

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