We are delighted to announce that Yasmin Qureshi MP, the Member of Parliament for Bolton South East, has agreed to be the Labour Party’s Parliamentary Champion for Carers Week 2022.
Responding to the announcement, Yasmin said:
Being an unpaid carer is one of the hardest things anyone can do, it demands time, effort, and sacrifice on a level that no job can compare to. Yet care in Britain is not spoken about anywhere near enough. With 13 million of us in Britain, this should be agenda item number one for the Government. We all know there is a major issue, yet not enough is done to address it.
"That is why this Carers Week, I am delighted to be the Labour party’s Parliamentary Champion. I will lobby colleagues to contribute to Carers Week and implore them to speak up about their personal situations, in the same way that I have. We as politicians have a platform, we must use it for good.”