Rachel is now holding her MP's surgeries across the constituency to allow as many people as possible easy access. The next upcoming surgeries are:

Friday 16th July - Greenhow Community Rooms, Haddon Road, Kirkstall. From 4pm.

Saturday 17th July - TESCOs, Bramley Shopping Centre. From 11am.

You can contact Rachel's contituency office for an appointment on: 0113 263 0411
or email: rreevesmp@gmail.com

In this article, Rachel analyses where the impacts of the recent budget will fall, and finds that the people of Leeds West will suffer disproportionately.

Rachel Reeves, Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds West, has criticised the coalition's 'shallow' commitment to reducing child poverty by 2020.

In an article on Labourlist, which you can access here, Rachel argues that the failure to roll out pilot schemes for free school meals will cost low income families dear. As free school meals currently cease when someone is no-longer entitled to benefits, it makes a mockery of the coalition government's claims to be encouraging people back into work - particularly when the poorest families will be hardest hit by the budget.

Rachel has written an article for Labour Uncut on the importance of sustaining growth and the risk of cutting regional development.

We need a growth plan, not regional economic vandalism, says Rachel Reeves

On Tuesday, Nick Clegg announced that at least £0.5bn was to be cut from the budget for regional economic development and at the same time abolished the regional development agencies (RDAs). In their place will be a ‘regional development fund’. In creating this new body, the government broke its promise – with no consultation or debate – that regional development agencies would remain in areas where they were popular.

This is devastating news for businesses across the country, with the coalition government seemingly evermore determined to risk plunging the UK back into recession...

Read the full article here.