Only a few hours after leaving a wet and windy Swansea station early Monday morning, I was representing Labour’s Shadow Home Affairs team on the House of Commons front benches. I spoke spoke about the terrible attacks on some volunteers working in charity shops, ranging from verbal abuse to physical assaults. The Charity Retail Association has released data showing that such incidents are on then … [Read more...]

Well, it’s been an incredibly busy week as we return to Parliament after the short recess. With the Tories still scrapping amongst themselves in the race to replace Theresa May, it’s been great to get really stuck in to the issues that matter this week. To kick off this week, I was pleased to hold a roundtable on funerals. This was the first meeting of the new Working Party on Funeral Poverty … [Read more...]

This week, while Parliament’s in recess and the Tories are scrapping amongst themselves in the race to succeed Theresa May, I’ve loved being able to spend more time getting out and about across Swansea East meeting with constituents and lots of different community organisations. Throughout the week, I’ve been busy delivering sanitary products which have kindly been donated by the fantastic Beauty … [Read more...]