Jonathan Slater Articles

Last month the Department for Education published worrying findings showing that more than one in three teenage girls suffer from anxiety or depression. This constituted a rise of 10 per cent in the past decade. According to Nick Harrop, campaigns manager of national...

In March of last year I was appointed by the mayor of Lewisham, as one of the one of the borough’s elected councillors, to be the mental health champion for Lewisham. My role is to promote mental health awareness across all business of the council. I ensured that the...

As the three Labour councillors for Whitefoot Ward in the London borough of Lewisham, we have a very good working relationship with our local social housing provider, Phoenix Community Housing, who took over the running of the housing stock from Lewisham council in...

Today I attended the fringe event jointly organised by Progress and the Institute for Government on whether we should have primaries to select Labour parliamentary candidates.   In the pro camp on the panel was Tottenham MP David Lammy, who said primaries were a good...