With Parliament in recess last week, I got to enjoy a bit of time at home with the family, as well as meeting some of the great people doing brilliant work in our area. With my fellow Welsh Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, I met Down to Earth who are tackling social inequality at the same time as looking at the challenges of sustainability. This is a fantastic project which works to create sustainable … [Read more...]

It’s been a week of challenging issues and sometimes raw emotion, with the chance to showcase some amazing work by campaigners and colleagues – but also with reminders of too many continuing injustices. Like many of you, I did start the week with a spring in my step, though, after our cracking result against Italy on Saturday. Hearty Congratulations to the boys, and commiserations to the women who … [Read more...]

It can never be said that an MP’s work isn’t varied! I began the week talking to Dawn Knight and other MPs about the work of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Beauty, Aesthetics, and Wellbeing as part of our work to improve the safety of cosmetic surgery practitioners and their procedures. Dawn Knight is a fabulous campaigner who has fought for better regulation and more stringent laws after … [Read more...]

It’s been absolutely non-stop this week, but we are settling down more into the swing of things in Westminster. It was great to get back in the saddle with my work as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Beauty, Aesthetics, and Wellbeing, this week meeting with the Teenage Cancer Trust on Wednesday to discuss their work and how we on the APPG could work with them to help support teenagers … [Read more...]

This week has gone by in a flash, with some great progress on campaigns close to my heart. Apologies if you felt you couldn’t escape me on the airwaves this week, but with our work on banning credit cards from gambling sites in the news, I was on BBC Radio Four, Five Live and LBC taking the fight to the greedy gambling bosses. The Gambling Commission has finally decided to put this ban in place, … [Read more...]