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Great news for punters and performers in Swansea 👇 swanseabaynews.com/2025/06/18/m...

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My Swansea neighbour, Tonia Antoniazzi, deserves huge credit for today’s vote to decriminalise abortions after 24 weeks - women involved in desperate situations need care not courts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Doorknocking and case work collecting this morning around the Brunswick (which is looking for a new landlord if running a lovely pub with a popular quiz is your next career move)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

These people are not serious about the future of Wales. It was good to call out the garbage being peddled on #bbcaq last night in Merthyr.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This is a total lie. I have seen every constituent who has asked to meet on this issue, and offered any constituents representing this group a meeting several times. If any constituents want to meet on this, or any other issue, please do get in touch.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

It’s actually bigger than the affordable homes investment by the last Labour government because it’s sustained (rather than a short term package in response to the financial crisis)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is a long overdue change to the law in Wales and England. We also need to build the homes, and deliver support services, to tackle homelessness itself www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

£445m investment in Welsh railways to be announced. Two Labour governments working together and delivering for Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Martin Wolf: “British pension policy is finally stepping in the right direction”. He’a not wrong. www.ft.com/content/34d4...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

We’re ending austerity - the chart

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Happy National Fish and Chip Day! Who does the best fish and chips in Swansea? Hiks are a top contender, with great staff serving great food. Sandra, Ashley and Louise, have together racked up an amazing 33 years serving up some of the best fish and chips in town.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Hundreds have contacted with concerns for Deirdre Murphy’s welfare — concerns I fully share. I'm pleased to see national media drawing more attention to this situation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I’m excited! Are you excited?! 🥳 #pensions #actuary

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The big, beautiful (pensions) bill has been introduced to the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk this afternoon

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

No - Free School Meals are classed as income in HBAI stats. So lifting children out of hunger and poverty

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Free school meals to be extended to 500,000 more children in England, learning from Wales where there are universal free school meals in primary schools. Wales will get matching funding - which could be used to further extend free school meals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

Labour isn’t aping austerity. We’re ending it.

submitted 14 days ago • 50 comments

I am aware of reports that one of my constituents, a 70-year-old woman, has been arrested by the Israeli authorities. I am in touch with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and am monitoring the situation closely. Thank you to everyone who has contacted me about it.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

❤️ Swansea Bay Parkrun

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Rocking a ‘drenched to the bone’ look door-knocking off Townhill Road and at Uplands market this morning #neverttusttheforecast

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks to everyone who came along to today's surgery in Swansea. I hold these regularly around the city - if there's an issue I can support you with and you want to come along, just email [email protected]

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

What’s better than writing about the disgraceful failure to build any reservoirs over the past three decades? Getting some built. Great stuff from @emmahardymp.bsky.social and Steve Reed today www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Great news to see us follow Aus and Canada by doing this, and a very important step in rebuilding this country whilst improving the future for us all heading into retirement.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

We need bigger, better pension funds delivering better returns to savers and stronger growth for Britain. A key plank of our pension reform agenda is accelerating the consolidation of pension schemes into £25bn+ ‘mega funds’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Impressive positivity from @chrisgiles.ft.com - with a great chart showing that @oecd-ocde.bsky.social predictions that ageing societies would automatically feed through into plummeting employment rates were very wide of the mark

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Pleased to see this issue getting some of the attention it deserves👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Man of the people? Sorry Nigel, but we've heard that one before.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

On Friday, I met with the Chair and CEO of @thewelshrugbyunion.bsky.social alongside MPs whose constituencies have strong links to @ospreysofficial.bsky.social and Scarlets. We have serious concerns about recent developments in the regional game - read our full statement here.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome news, showing that those who oppose our pension reforms by saying there aren’t the UK projects to invest in are talking nonsense www.ft.com/content/ebba...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Friday evening out talking to residents in Sandfields. And if we missed you, fear not. It’s always easy to get in touch: [email protected]

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely to meet so many of the good people of Penlan at my coffee morning last week. It was important to hear about the problems in the area, but also about what people really love about their neighbourhood and about Swansea.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

You cannot have a failing state and a growing economy. The Tories taxed British businesses by running down the NHS and taking police off the beat - and they're still talking the country down. Labour is backing British business and getting the economy moving again.

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

This is staggering. Real wages have grown more in the first 10 months of this Labour government than during the first ten years of Tory governments since 2010. And not one apology from Conservative MPs for the mess they left us in today - shameful.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Clubs, fans and communities need answers - and a fair way forward - after the Welsh Rugby Union's statement 👇

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Debate on fishing needs to start from some facts. What has done huge damage to the UK fishing industry? The Tories’ Brexit deal - which risked knocking a staggering 30% off fishing output by creating huge barriers for a sector dependent on exporting to the EU

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments