Labour MP for Exeter 📧 For casework please email [email protected] ➡️ Promoted by Exeter Labour Party at 26b Clifton Hill, EX1 2DJ
Joined April 2009
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Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
81 years ago, the @UN Charter came into force, with international law at its core.
The UK believes international law must apply equally and fairly to all.
That’s why we back @DapoAkandeLaw for the @CIJ_ICJ: an exceptional, independent lawyer who shares those values.
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
Lots in here, with more to come at Budget.
Particularly pleased we are providing a big boost to @AISecurityInst to ensure it can continue to play a leading role internationally, and recruit top talent to do so.
gov.uk/government/news/chanc…
Green Party Councillor vehemently objects to Prime Minister spending an hour in an evening helping to raise money for a cancer charity. Ok then 🤦♂️
'Is that a really good use of his time?'
'Raising money for a cancer charity?'
The Green Party's @floschechter brands Andy Burnham going on Gogglebox as 'ridiculous'.
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
Hello folks, if you were affected by the Armed Forces LGBT Ban between 1967 and 2000, you can apply for the Financial Recognition Scheme and other forms of recognition. 👇
Find out what’s available and take the first step: gov.uk/affected-by-the-ban
This is incredibly concerning and frankly shocking - Turning Point UK and its leaders should be fully investigated for their links as an organisation and as individuals to paramilitaries and organised violence, and we need transparency on their funding.
A former Tory election candidate has been suspended from the party after he was seemingly filmed discussing the cost of hiring contract killers and offering to “broker” the services of a far-right activist with alleged paramilitary links.
By @BenQuinn75
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Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
The collapse in violent crime over three decades has been one of the most striking developments of my lifetime.
News is about what’s going wrong, and rightly so. But the bigger picture also matters
From today’s figures:-
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
Think that was one of my favourite @bbcquestiontime episodes.
We found areas of agreement and disagreement, but where we disagreed we disagreed well.
How it should be. A pleasure to debate the issues with you @TomTugendhat @EllieChowns @GeoffNorcott @MyStephanomics.
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
Some chatter on social media would have you believe that crime is out of control.
The facts tell a different story.
As @frasernelson has shown in his Substack today:
Violence is at its lowest level since the crime survey began in 1981.
Robbery is at a record low.
Crime, excluding fraud, is 78% down on its peak in 1995.
And the stats show this Government is delivering on its promises too:
Knife crime is down 11%.
Knife murders are at their lowest level in 35 years.
Thefts including phone snatching have fallen by 20% in the last year alone.
But I know there is more that we must do, and we will:
We’ve put more than 3,800 extra neighbourhood officers into roles, with named, contactable officers for every neighbourhood.
We’re introducing the most significant reforms to policing in a generation.
We are tackling rising rates of violence against women and girls through our landmark strategy.
And we are tackling crimes like fraud, more prevalent in our increasingly online world, with £250 million directed to this challenge in our Fraud Strategy published this year.
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
Pensioner poverty has halved in the past 30 years, as the shadow work and pensions secretary @Helen_Whately claimed. But how much of this was down to the Conservatives?
Almost all the fall she’s talking about happened under Labour.
fullfact.org/economy/helen-w…
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
Glad to see all of Sudan's neighbors having record gold exports this year! 🤔
The finance ministry says it shipped $889 million worth of the precious metal over the month, up 68.9 per cent from last year. l.africanews.com/Ebb
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
🚨This is well worth downloading - it is a v useful guide about the kind of supplies you and your household might need to be self sufficient for 72 hours in the event of an emergency - from a flood or a power cut to war:
beready.campaign.gov.uk/wp-c…
Sorry to see that #Exeter’s former MP for 27 years, Sir John Hannam, has died at the age of 97.
By all accounts he was a decent man - his obituary makes clear his passion for disability rights.
My sincere condolences go to his family and friends.
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Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
Over a 100 days of Reform in Sandwell and what do they have to show for it? 🤨
Local road safety schemes - requested by residents to protect drivers, pedestrians and the vulnerable - have been stopped or scrapped 😥
Reform don't care about public safety or about Sandwell.
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
UPDATE: New action on redress for postmasters affected by the Post Office scandal including:
-Deadlines set for the closure of remaining redress schemes
-New independent routes to review and appeal Horizon Shortfall Scheme claims
-Independent investigation announced into pre-Horizon software systems
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
⚠️ An amber weather warning has been issued for Cornwall as Storm Austen approaches.
The warning is in place from 03:00 to 10:00 BST on Friday, with winds expected to gust up to 80mph on exposed coasts and 60-70mph inland.
More here: bbc.in/4dRn67S
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
#OTD in 1805, the Royal Navy defeated the combined forces of France and Spain at Trafalgar.
The tactical brilliance, professionalism, technology and training which underpinned Adm Lord Nelson’s stunning victory have driven and shaped the Navy ever since.
#TrafalgarDay
Steve Race MP 💙💛 retweeted
.Stuart Ramsay and his team join the 11th Brigade in Ukraine, helping the few who try to escape Oleshky - a city under Russian siege - escape. They witness two grandmothers trying to escape through the 'road of death and life' on bikes as a Russian drone heads in their direction.
Ukrainian soldiers say residents of Oleshky are not allowed to leave under Russian occupation. The only way out is a 20km road to the other side of the Dnipro River, where Ukraine is free from occupation.
Watch the full report: qrcode.skynews.com/skynews/O…
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Unemployment rate down to 4.7%, and employment rate up in latest figures. Now down 0.5% from 5.2% peak last year.
Measurement issues in the headline jobs figures, but the quality is increasing so these numbers may reflect situation better than last year’s numbers.
Vacancies fell again though, lowest outside covid since 2014, but also in line with average. By sector the levels story is as would be expected - concentrated in social care/ retail and hospitality BUT they were all flat in latest quarter, retail actually added 3k vacancies.
General picture of a low hire low fire low churn flat labour market, with some interesting under the hood stories.
Peak in long term sickness driving fall in inactivity? Down 80k from 2.82m in Jun-Aug 2025 to 2.74m. The small has occurred amongst male workers. Female inactivity is flat. Overall still up 600k plus since pandemic.
Age hit - Over 65s fastest age group adding to payrolls - up 5.6% in year to September. 25-34 yo down 1.9%.
AI tech jobs challenge? Not coming through in the payroll numbers cut by age, eg for 18-24 year olds, but sectorally info & comms payroll numbers have fallen by the most of any major sector - down 2.5% over past year, bigger proportional hit than eg hospitality.
Clear public-private split on growing payrolls and earnings growth.
