Thanks to Bacce Residents’ Action Group and Burry Port councillors Amanda Fox and John James for a positive meeting this morning. Next steps include meeting with council officers to request land for boules area, community consultation and request to...

Great to speak to Leonard Cheshire earlier this week about the fantastic work they do to support disabled people across Wales with social care and skills programmes. I’ve written to Carmarthenshire County Council asking them to explain why there...

I would like to wish everyone a Happy St David’s Day. As St David himself said: the little things matter. That’s why I was alarmed to read last month that the UK’s network of free cash points could be under...

I interviewed the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry earlier this month ahead of her visit to Llanelli on 10th March for International Women’s Day. We discussed progress on gender equality in the last century, women in modern politics and...

Tomorrow marks the end of this year’s LGBT history month, when we look back on the first public protests against Section 28 and the campaigning that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people and those with other sexual orientations and...

Delighted to join Luke Pollard MP and the Labour Parliamentary candidate who are standing up for HMS Albion, HMS Bulwark, our Marines and skilled defence workforce against Tory threats of further cuts to our defence capabilities. Good to be...

I am usually back in Llanelli on Fridays but today was one of the Fridays in the year when private members’ bills are discussed and so I was there to make sure that we had enough supportive MPs to...

This morning I had the privilege of speaking to Prospect Union defence workers, we had a good discussion, vital we have effective long-term defence industrial strategy to give industry the certainty it needs to plan ahead, and which factors...

Last week I spent my parliamentary recess out on a very informative visit with the Armed Forces in Gibraltar. It was great to meet Carl Thomas from Bryn, Llanelli (in the photo) and hear about his diving and bomb...

Please sign and share this petition to fly the rainbow flag over county hall: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/to-fly-the-rainbow-flag-over-county-council-building-in-lgbtq-history-month Carmarthenshire’s disgraceful excuse that they couldn’t fly the rainbow flag because they would have to respond to loads of flag requests has already been...