I’m a British-Somali feminist, an FGM campaigner and an activist for equality. I’m standing for Hornsey and Wood Green because I believe in a more equal future for Haringey.

I moved to Britain at four years old as a child refugee, and I know first hand the impact of rising intolerance and division across the UK. I believe it’s time to reimagine our immigration system – valuing the contributions migrants make to our communities, and bringing down the barriers that prevent migrant women from fulfilling their potential.

Today, with Brexit looming and Trump in office, the world is a colder and darker place for people like me. I am a young, black Muslim woman from a family of refugees. I am a statistic often quoted but too rarely seen. I’m standing because too many girls and women like me are still invisible – and I believe it’s time to change that.

WE have an eight point plan for a flourishing economy and an equal society that works better for everyone. 

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1. A caring economy

WE offer a fresh approach that will build a sustainable caring economy that works for everyone.

2. Shared parental leave

WE will implement a fully equal system of nine months shared parental leave on 90% of pay, with a 3-month use-it-or-lose-it provision for each parent.

3. Free universal childcare

WE will implement full-time, high quality, free childcare for all children from the end of shared parental leave. 

4. An end to violence against women

WE will repair the broken funding model for specialist services, including services that are for and led by BAME women. WE will put prevention, protection and provision at the heart of all our policies and WE will not rest until all women and girls are free from violence and harassment.

5. Unleashing women’s talent

By reforming our education system and tackling the reductive and often hypersexualised depiction of women in the media, WE will unleash the talent of all. 

6. Equality in health and social care

WE will make sure our healthcare system works for women and men  alike, putting the furthest from equality first, and ensure that social care is recognised not as an adjunct to economic activity but as its underpinning. 

7. Brexit

WE will build an immigration system with gender equality and social justice at its heart. WE will design trade deals that work for everybody. WE will make sure Brexit does not turn back the clock on gender equality through secondary legislation.

8. Invest in what matters

WE will invest in what matters and make sure our social infrastructure works as well as our physical infrastructure. WE will invest in homes, not houses, and restore our education, health care and social care systems. All our policies are costed and will not increase the burden on low and average income households.