This evening the Labour Party held an Eid reception to celebrate this occasion with people from across the country.

Today I met with a group of pensioners at their weekly lunch club at the Back O‘th’ Community Centre in Heywood & Middleton.

As the Lib Dem Party joined in Glasgow for their annual conference on Saturday, Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party said:

This morning I joined local campaigners and members of the community to visit the site of the old Peckham Lido and which the group would like to restore and re-open for the benefit of the local community.

One in four of us will suffer a mental health problem at some stage during our lives.  We all know someone who has one of the common mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety or a more complex condition such as bi-polar disorder.

Thousands of ill and disabled people up and down the country have been waiting for months to find out whether they will get the Government’s new disability benefit – Personal Independence Payment (PIP) – which is for people who need help with the extra costs of living with a long term illness or disability.

DEPUTY LEADER Conference Speech Harriet Harman 2014

It was great to see so many members, officers and councillors from Camberwell & Peckham CLP attend Labour Party Conference this year at our annual get together for lunch at Pizza Express.

Art makes Children Powerful was the theme of a Panel event on Young People and the Arts in Manchester today. 

Yesterday, in Manchester, I launched the Labour Arts Alliance.  You can read the press release below.

You can read my report by clicking here.

The phone lines were busy this evening at LBC for the next instalment of my regular phone in with Iain Dale.

I joined Southwark Labour Party members and councillors on Saturday 13th September at the Beormund Community Centre in Bermondsey for Southwark Labour's annual conference.

London Assembly Member, Val Shawcross, local councillors Richard Livingstone and Evelyn Akoto, and Southwark Council resident services officers Melvina Powell and Andrew Johnson on the Tustin Estate in Livesey.

This morning I joined my Labour colleagues to travel up to Scotland ahead of the referendum on the 18th September to help the No Campaign get the message across that we're better together. 

On Wednesday 10th September I visited the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell to meet the new Chief Executive of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), Dr. Matthew Patrick. SLaM provides the widest range of mental health services in the UK and is at the forefront of tackling the stigma of mental health.

September is breast cancer awareness month and to show my support in the fight against breast cancer I dropped into the Breast Cancer Campaign's annual #wearitpink event in Parliament today.

Today I stood in for Ed Miliband at Prime Minster's Questions following the joint statement announcing that he, David Cameron and Nick Clegg would travel to Scotland to listen and talk to voters ahead of the referendum vote on the 18th September.

Liverpool can provide the “blueprint” for how the whole country ensures arts and culture are there for every child from every walk of life.

On 31st July I wrote to the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond MP, on the Ebola crsis in West Africa.  Camberwell and Peckham has the largest West African diaspora in the country and my constituents will be very concerned about the situation in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria.  Many will be worried about family members and close friends in their country of origin and will want to know that the UK Government is doing everything it can to help the affected countries.

You can read the Foreign Secretary's reply to my letter here.