Sharon Hodgson MP
@sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social
Labour MP for Washington and Gateshead South | If you would like to contact me, please email [email protected]
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Promoted by Hollie Ridley on behalf of the Labour Party, 20 Rushworth Street, London, SE1 0SS
It was an honour to attend the 4th Parliamentary Summit for the International Crimea Platform this week, where President Pons of the OSCE reiterated the Assembly's support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and Carina Ödebrink spoke on the abducted Ukrainian children.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It was an honour to attend the 4th Parliamentary Summit for the International Crimea Platform this week, where President Pons of the OSCE reiterated the Assembly's support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and Carina Ödebrink spoke on the abducted Ukrainian children.
It is brilliant to have yet again been nominated alongside some heroes of the sector in this year’s edition of the Public Sector Catering ‘Top 20 Most Influential’ list.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It is brilliant to have yet again been nominated alongside some heroes of the sector in this year’s edition of the Public Sector Catering ‘Top 20 Most Influential’ list.
www.publicsectorcatering.co.uk/news/public-...
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This weekend, I joined Ukrainians in Bolton to mark the anniversary of the tragic Holodomor genocide.
The event was held at our local Ukrainian Cultural Centre, which provides a home and a community for so many.
Today and always, I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
#slavaukraini
#holodomor
The event was held at our local Ukrainian Cultural Centre, which provides a home and a community for so many.
Today and always, I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
#slavaukraini
#holodomor
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This weekend, I joined Ukrainians in Bolton to mark the anniversary of the tragic Holodomor genocide.
The event was held at our local Ukrainian Cultural Centre, which provides a home and a community for so many.
Today and always, I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
#slavaukraini
#holodomor
The event was held at our local Ukrainian Cultural Centre, which provides a home and a community for so many.
Today and always, I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
#slavaukraini
#holodomor
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Strong relationships like Canada and the UK’s are fundamental to economic growth and security.
Today, Keir Starmer and I met to discuss new opportunities in energy, technology, and critical minerals — as well as next steps toward a just and lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.
Today, Keir Starmer and I met to discuss new opportunities in energy, technology, and critical minerals — as well as next steps toward a just and lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Strong relationships like Canada and the UK’s are fundamental to economic growth and security.
Today, Keir Starmer and I met to discuss new opportunities in energy, technology, and critical minerals — as well as next steps toward a just and lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.
Today, Keir Starmer and I met to discuss new opportunities in energy, technology, and critical minerals — as well as next steps toward a just and lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.
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Today is Holodomor Memorial Day
holodomor mini doc
YouTube video by - hrec
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November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Today is Holodomor Memorial Day
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Today is #Holodomor memorial day a
Reminder of Stalin's deliberate mass murder of Ukrainians in the 1930s; the world looked away .
Putin is on the very same ideology and intent ..https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/exposing-stalin-famine-in-ukraine-muggeridge-1933
#Holodomor
Reminder of Stalin's deliberate mass murder of Ukrainians in the 1930s; the world looked away .
Putin is on the very same ideology and intent ..https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/exposing-stalin-famine-in-ukraine-muggeridge-1933
#Holodomor
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today is #Holodomor memorial day a
Reminder of Stalin's deliberate mass murder of Ukrainians in the 1930s; the world looked away .
Putin is on the very same ideology and intent ..https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/exposing-stalin-famine-in-ukraine-muggeridge-1933
#Holodomor
Reminder of Stalin's deliberate mass murder of Ukrainians in the 1930s; the world looked away .
Putin is on the very same ideology and intent ..https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/exposing-stalin-famine-in-ukraine-muggeridge-1933
#Holodomor
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I don’t usually post political but very well done to the great Sharon Hodgson MP who, after campaigning for years about ticket touts and sites selling tickets at hugely inflated prices, has managed to get a Private Members Bill through to stop this. What a benefit it will be to so many!
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I don’t usually post political but very well done to the great Sharon Hodgson MP who, after campaigning for years about ticket touts and sites selling tickets at hugely inflated prices, has managed to get a Private Members Bill through to stop this. What a benefit it will be to so many!
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Great to see this CNN interview with my friend @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social about her successful campaign since 2010 to cap ticket resales and put fans first
Well done Sharon 👏👏👏- our Labour Government will make this happen
Well done Sharon 👏👏👏- our Labour Government will make this happen
I was delighted to speak to Richard Quest on @cnn.com about the Government's plans to cap ticket resales and put fans first.
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great to see this CNN interview with my friend @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social about her successful campaign since 2010 to cap ticket resales and put fans first
Well done Sharon 👏👏👏- our Labour Government will make this happen
Well done Sharon 👏👏👏- our Labour Government will make this happen
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Yet another win for the brilliant @sharonhodgsonmp. Her decade of work on this has paid off for hundreds of thousands of arts and sports enthusiasts.
I was delighted to speak to Richard Quest on @cnn.com about the Government's plans to cap ticket resales and put fans first.
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yet another win for the brilliant @sharonhodgsonmp. Her decade of work on this has paid off for hundreds of thousands of arts and sports enthusiasts.
I was delighted to speak to Richard Quest on @cnn.com about the Government's plans to cap ticket resales and put fans first.
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I was delighted to speak to Richard Quest on @cnn.com about the Government's plans to cap ticket resales and put fans first.
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
The UK has a world-leading live events sector and fans deserve the right to pay a fair price, as is already the case in other countries that have legislated in this way. 1/2
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It's been a long time coming...today we are reconnecting council funding with deprivation ->
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Tackling deprivation and reversing years of unfair council funding
Outdated funding formulas that penalised deprived areas for decades are being scrapped, so local people finally get the vital public services they deserve.
www.gov.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's been a long time coming...today we are reconnecting council funding with deprivation ->
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
After continued pressure from myself and MPs supporting the All-Party Parliamentary Group on School Food, I am pleased to welcome the Government’s announcement that all of the universal primary breakfast clubs will receive an average funding uplift of 28% ensuring a range of healthy options.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
After continued pressure from myself and MPs supporting the All-Party Parliamentary Group on School Food, I am pleased to welcome the Government’s announcement that all of the universal primary breakfast clubs will receive an average funding uplift of 28% ensuring a range of healthy options.
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🎟️ Labour is making it illegal to resell tickets for live events above the original cost.
Big shout-out to my friend @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social who’s campaigned on this for 15+ years to see it become actual policy: MP = massive persistence 👏🏻
Big shout-out to my friend @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social who’s campaigned on this for 15+ years to see it become actual policy: MP = massive persistence 👏🏻
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🎟️ Labour is making it illegal to resell tickets for live events above the original cost.
Big shout-out to my friend @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social who’s campaigned on this for 15+ years to see it become actual policy: MP = massive persistence 👏🏻
Big shout-out to my friend @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social who’s campaigned on this for 15+ years to see it become actual policy: MP = massive persistence 👏🏻
The Ticket Abuse APPG that I set up and Co-Chair, alongside fans, artists, athletes and venues, have long called for these common-sense measures to cap secondary ticketing and at long last put fans first! 🎟️🌹
FanFair comment: UK Government to introduce a cap on ticket resale prices - FanFair Alliance
In a bid to end exploitative online ticket touting, today the UK Government has announced plans to implement new rules that will make it illegal to resell a ticket for live events above original cost....
fanfairalliance.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Ticket Abuse APPG that I set up and Co-Chair, alongside fans, artists, athletes and venues, have long called for these common-sense measures to cap secondary ticketing and at long last put fans first! 🎟️🌹
Following 14 years of Conservative inaction, the results of this consultation have shown what this Labour Government needs to do to fully support our live events sector and put fans first.
Ticket touts’ worst nightmare has finally come true in the UK
Government has officially announced ban on reselling for profit, described by minister as ‘no-brainer’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Following 14 years of Conservative inaction, the results of this consultation have shown what this Labour Government needs to do to fully support our live events sector and put fans first.
I am delighted to see that after 15 years of campaigning for this and 14 years since former MPs Philip Davies and Sajid Javid talked out my Private Members Bill in 2011 that would have capped resale, that it is this Labour Government that is going to fix this broken resale market. 🎟️🌹
Government bans ticket touting to protect fans from rip-off prices
Music and sport fans will no longer be ripped off on the ticket resale market thanks to new measures making it illegal to resell tickets for live events above original cost
www.gov.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I am delighted to see that after 15 years of campaigning for this and 14 years since former MPs Philip Davies and Sajid Javid talked out my Private Members Bill in 2011 that would have capped resale, that it is this Labour Government that is going to fix this broken resale market. 🎟️🌹
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Great work by Which? in encouraging the government to announce a price cap for resale tickets. Not forgetting the efforts by @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social, about 300 years ago.
#toutsout
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#toutsout
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Viagogo and Stubhub: do you know who you’re really buying from? - Which?
The government is set to announce a price cap for resale tickets
www.which.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Great work by Which? in encouraging the government to announce a price cap for resale tickets. Not forgetting the efforts by @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social, about 300 years ago.
#toutsout
www.which.co.uk/news/article...
#toutsout
www.which.co.uk/news/article...
Many of my constituents across Washington, Gateshead and Sunderland have contacted me about the impact of fireworks on animals and vulnerable people. I attended an important event in Parliament last week with the Fireworks Impact Coalition to hear how we can make celebrations safer for everyone.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Many of my constituents across Washington, Gateshead and Sunderland have contacted me about the impact of fireworks on animals and vulnerable people. I attended an important event in Parliament last week with the Fireworks Impact Coalition to hear how we can make celebrations safer for everyone.
Today I spoke again regarding the horrific war in Ukraine and the three OSCE officials who have been taken captive by the Russian Federation.
I hope by regularly speaking their names, we will entreat our governments to go further in pressuring Russia to release them and end this illegal invasion.
I hope by regularly speaking their names, we will entreat our governments to go further in pressuring Russia to release them and end this illegal invasion.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Today I spoke again regarding the horrific war in Ukraine and the three OSCE officials who have been taken captive by the Russian Federation.
I hope by regularly speaking their names, we will entreat our governments to go further in pressuring Russia to release them and end this illegal invasion.
I hope by regularly speaking their names, we will entreat our governments to go further in pressuring Russia to release them and end this illegal invasion.
In my new role as chair of the Parliamentary Support Team to Ukraine, I am dedicated to upholding the OSCE's commitment to Ukraine's democracy and national sovereignty in spite of Russia's illegal invasion and misinformation campaign.
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In my new role as chair of the Parliamentary Support Team to Ukraine, I am dedicated to upholding the OSCE's commitment to Ukraine's democracy and national sovereignty in spite of Russia's illegal invasion and misinformation campaign.
Today I had the privilege of attending a bilateral meeting with members of the Ukrainian OSCE PA delegation during our autumn session with my position of Chair of the Parliamentary Support Team for Ukraine to further discuss the current situation in their country, and how the OSCE can help.
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today I had the privilege of attending a bilateral meeting with members of the Ukrainian OSCE PA delegation during our autumn session with my position of Chair of the Parliamentary Support Team for Ukraine to further discuss the current situation in their country, and how the OSCE can help.
It was an honour to speak in the OSCE PA's autumn session Standing Committee this morning on my recent appointment as Chair of the Parliamentary Support Team for Ukraine and my commitment to ensuring that Ukraine remains at the forefront of the assembly's agenda. (1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It was an honour to speak in the OSCE PA's autumn session Standing Committee this morning on my recent appointment as Chair of the Parliamentary Support Team for Ukraine and my commitment to ensuring that Ukraine remains at the forefront of the assembly's agenda. (1/2)
Here's a round-up of my week in Parliament. 🌹
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Here's a round-up of my week in Parliament. 🌹
