Many constituents across Swansea East will be aware that over the last few years I’ve organised a series of summer lunch clubs to help ensure kids living in our communities don’t go hungry during the school holidays. Many children who rely on free school meals during term-time don’t have this to fall back on during the long 6-week summer holiday. Having lunch may not seem like something many … [Read more...]

The last week in Parliament before the summer recess will live long in the memory for many reasons. Boris Johnson’s unseemly installation as our new Prime Minister, full of bluster and rhetoric but painfully short on vision and compassion, is bad news for communities here in Swansea East and across all of Wales. Welsh Labour’s First Minister Mark Drakeford was quite right to sound the alarm bells, … [Read more...]

It’s been another jam-packed week in Westminster.   On Tuesday, I led a Westminster Hall debate into regulation of online sales of electrical products.  This is an issue that’s very close to my heart, and I’m determined to make this Government take action so that sites such as Amazon Marketplace, Ali Baba and others are forced to act more responsibly when selling electrical products. On Wednesday, … [Read more...]

I’ve definitely never had a week quite like this in Westminster. It’s been extraordinary, if bittersweet. After nearly 3 years since I first called on Theresa May to introduce a Children’s Funeral Fund, we finally got the news that the government have brought forward the necessary legislation to make this provision a reality. Many constituents will know that I started this campaign following the … [Read more...]