Knife crime in England and Wales is up 74% on 2015, with record levels of knife-enabled rape and knife-enabled threats to kill. Recent incidents here in Llanelli show we are not immune locally to this problem either. Youth violence...
An attempt by MPs to reform rules on taxpayer-funded severance payments for UK Government Ministers has failed despite local Llanelli MP, Nia Griffith, speaking in favour of the plan in the House of Commons and voting to end the...
With the chaos and churn of Tory Ministers coming and going, Labour have this week proposed closing loopholes to stop short-stay Ministers walking off with totally unjustifiable severance payments, as well as banning them for any minister found guilty...
At the beginning of LGBT History Month, let’s remember the importance of the repeal of section 28 by the then Labour Government some 20 years ago, and the progress on LGBT issues made since then, but remember too that...
The sad loss of so many jobs at Tata Steel in Port Talbot will be felt deeply across South Wales including here in Llanelli. I know many local people are either employed directly at that site or indirectly via...
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. This year’s theme of the fragility of freedom reminds us of the need to be constantly vigilant, to defend people’s freedoms, freedom of religion and freedom to self-identify, and to speak out against all...
“The end of blast furnace steelmaking in Port Talbot will be devastating for the UK steel industry and for the future of thousands of jobs across South Wales. It will leave the UK as the only major economy in...
The UK Government will lag behind the EU by a year in introducing new rules designed to protect our economy from being undermined by cheaper imports from heavily polluting nations. I’m calling on Ministers to get their house in...
Not only must we ensure justice and compensation for all the subpostmasters, subpostmistresses and clerks wronged by the shocking Horizon scandal, but to avoid similar scandals we must empower people against public bodies closing ranks. That’s why I am...
Several constituents of mine have been caught up in this saga which has taken many years of hard work and pressure to resolve. Current and former Roadchef employees and their loved ones deserved to be treated far better. The...