Lucy Rigby KC MP
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Lucy Rigby KC MP
@lucyrigby.bsky.social
Economic Secretary to the Treasury & City Minister 🇬🇧 | Labour MP for Northampton North | For casework, please contact [email protected]
9 things this Labour Government delivered last week
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
✅ 350,000 new workplace & training opportunities
✅ 360 Youth Hubs
✅ A Jobs Guarantee for 18-21 year olds who are long-term unemployed

This @uklabour Government is providing opportunities for our young people & backing them to succeed.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
50,000 new apprenticeships promised in youth employment push
Funding will be used to help employ young people in sectors including AI, hospitality and engineering.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Good to meet up with the West Northants Labour Group alongside my neighbour @mike-reader.bsky.social & talk all things #Northampton & #SmallBusinessSaturday! 🌹
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This #SmallBusinessSaturday, I’ve been around town celebrating some of the amazing small businesses we have in #Northampton!
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Great coffee morning at St Albans Church. Always good to see our local PCSOs (and special mention to Kingsthorpe resident Teddy 🐶)
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This government will drive the biggest reduction of child poverty in a single Parliament. This is how we get there.
Over half a million children to be lifted out of poverty as government unveils historic child poverty strategy
Around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 – the biggest reduction in a single parliament since records began – as the Government launches its Child Poverty Strategy today (Friday…
www.gov.uk
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This Govt is committed to ensuring that children of all ages receive a good financial education

Thank you to Ana Botín of Santander & James Harding of @theobserveruk.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion at the launch of Santander's report ‘The Currency of Learning’ this morning
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Great news that every new Best Start Family Centre will be provided with a dedicated SEND practitioner, meaning SEND families in #Northampton will receive help faster & earlier when the West Northants centre is complete in April next year!

www.gov.uk/government/n...
Access to early SEND support through Best Start Family Hubs
Best Start Family Hubs to act as one-stop-shop for parents with SEND professional and services to support speech and language development confirmed.
www.gov.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Some examples of issues my office was able to help #Northampton residents with in November.

If you need any help or assistance, please contact me via 📧 [email protected] or ☎️ 01604 915131.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
8 things Labour's budget will deliver #Budget2025
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Labour is DOUBLING funding to repair our broken roads - including up to £73 million for #Northampton until 2029 🔧
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
60% of the families who'll benefit from the lifting of the 2 child cap have a parent in work
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Aaand the tree is up… 🎅🎄
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Justice delayed is justice denied.

This Government inherited a broken criminal justice system & a record Crown Court backlog, with victims waiting years for their cases to be heard.

Getting the Crown Court backlog down to deliver swifter justice is a moral imperative.
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Tory austerity left deep & lasting scars on our economy & wider society.

And now the Tories want to go there again - proving that they’ve learnt the grand total of nothing…

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November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Tories would take us back to the austerity that devastated
our communities. This @ukabour Government is rebuilding 🇬🇧
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Good to speak to @UKLabour members this eve about #Budget2025. Thank you to everyone who dialled in.

Always good to talk to @Gail_McDade too!
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This @uklabour Government is supporting start-ups, scale-ups & SMEs in #Northampton and across 🇬🇧
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Backing Britain's start-ups
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Renewing Britain
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Today, the Chancellor set out how we’re creating the conditions for growth & fuelling companies to thrive.

Fantastic to see this announcement from Lloyds today ⬇️
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We are currently working to fix the problem and should have it resolved shortly.
www.lloydsbankinggroup.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I wrote for City AM about how this Budget strengthens UK capital markets – making 🇬🇧 the best place for companies to scale, list & succeed.

www.cityam.com/city-ministe...
City minister: This Labour Budget will strengthen capital markets
This Budget introduces reforms to strengthen the UK's capital markets, notably with the new UK Listing Relief to abolish Stamp Duty Reserve Tax for three years after listing, and ISA reform to boost retail...
www.cityam.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is a Budget that will deliver for 🇬🇧

We’re strengthening our economy, cutting borrowing, NHS waiting lists & the cost of living.
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Loved seeing the Northampton School for Girls team shine at this year's Big Bang at Parliament with their hugely impressive Sereniwrap project 💡🚀
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM