What Critics Of The Norway Model Often Get Wrong

30 Apr 2019

Prospect Magazine The downside of taking a reasoned, measured position in any political debate is that you tend to get ‘caught in the crossfire’, with purists at each end of the spectrum attacking your proposals because they pose a threat to their ideological obsessions. Try this with Brexit and you’re…

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A Stand-Alone Customs Union Would Be A Disaster For The British Economy

10 Apr 2019

Politics Home In many ways the two high-quality Indicative Votes debates on the UK-EU future relationship showed our Parliament at its very best. We knew what was at stake. The priority, most of us agreed, was to avert the catastrophe of No Deal Brexit, so it was incumbent upon all…

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Why Common Market 2.0 Beats The Backstop

27 Mar 2019

Co-written with George Freeman Brexit has locked our politics in a devastating state of paralysis. Public trust is falling, the government is gridlocked and the nation is divided. This can’t go on. The Prime Minister has found herself tied up in knots as all her ill-advised red lines, and EU…

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Division has paralysed our politics – it’s time for compromise

25 Mar 2019

House Magazine There’s no doubt that Britain is a great country with so much going for it; economically, democratically, and culturally. But we are more divided than we have been at any time since the Second World War; young versus old, city versus town, graduate versus non-graduate. These are the…

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Common Market 2.0 Is The Fastest Route To Brexit

20 Mar 2019

Chatham House speech about the Common Market 2.0 plan Thank you Tom, Nick, Robin and everyone at Chatham House for organising this event. Thanks also to my fellow panelists today. We’re a motley crew, but it has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with you, and I am…

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Stephen Kinnock Holds Fourth Annual Funding Fair

20 Mar 2019

Stephen Kinnock’s Funding Fair is back for it’s fourth year with new advice providers signed on to give advice and help to groups and organisations looking for funding. This year’s event will be held in The Centre, Lodge Drive, Baglan, SA12 8UB on Friday 22 March between 10am and 1pm. Encouraging…

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Local Politicians Fight For The Future Of The Ospreys

07 Mar 2019

Local politicians from across the Ospreys region have written to Martyn Phillips, Chief Executive of the WRU, calling on him to ‘look at all possible avenues and do all you possibly can’ to prevent the Ospreys from going out of existence. The letter has been signed by Aberavon’s Stephen Kinnock…

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Second Referendum Supporters Must Be Upfront With The Public

07 Mar 2019

House Magazine No single party has been responsible for the steady erosion of trust in politics that we have seen over recent decades. From New Labour’s invasion of Iraq on a false prospectus to the Lib Dems’ tuition fees deception to the litany of Tory broken promises on everything from…

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How The Murky World Of Campaign Finance Must Change

05 Feb 2019

LabourList Our democracy is crumbling. The EU referendum exposed many of Britain’s flaws, but perhaps none more so than our creaking system of campaign finance. Drip by drip we have learnt about the extent to which our democratic system has been flooded with ‘dodgy’ money and dirty data. First Cambridge…

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Steelworkers Pensions Meeting

29 Jan 2019

NOTIFICATION OF A PUBLIC MEETING FOR ALL THOSE WHO FEEL THEY MAY HAVE BEEN MIS-SOLD A PENSION TRANSFER IN AND AROUND PORT TALBOT Stephen Kinnock MP is attending a public meeting at the Twelve Knights Hotel in Margam, Port Talbot at 1530 on 1 Feb 2019 to discuss fresh and…

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A ‘Whole Nation’ Party

28 Jan 2019

Fabians British politics is in an unhealthy state of polarisation and paralysis. Small but vocal tribal groups sit at either end of the new political spectrum. At one end are the passionate, pro-EU, open border, globalist ultra-remainers. At the other end the hard Brexiteers, anti-European, closed border, nationalist, die-hard leavers.…

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Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock Welcomes UK Government Confirmation That Baglan Super-Prison Proposals Have Been Axed

22 Jan 2019

Commenting on the news that Baglan is no longer being considered as a potential home of the new ‘super-prison’, MP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock said: “This is fantastic news and a real victory for the people of Port Talbot. David Rees AM and I have been working hard with our…

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Common Market 2.0

07 Jan 2019

Today the cross-party Norway Plus Group of MPs are publishing a major report advocating ‘Common Market 2.0’ – a plan to reset the UK-Europe relationship for the 21st Century. ‘Common Market 2.0’, co-authored by Lucy Powell MP and Robert Halfon MP, on behalf of the Norway Plus Group, sets out how stepping out…

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Parliament is stuck in a state of limbo. Only Norway Plus can dig us out of this crisis

14 Dec 2018

House Magazine Theresa May limped through her no confidence vote, but her dog’s dinner of a Brexit deal is still dead in the water. May’s decision to defer the Meaningful Vote was not only the most anti-democratic act by a British Prime Minister in living memory, it was also utterly…

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Remember The Golden Days Of Our EU Affair? A Norway Deal Could Return Us There

10 Dec 2018

The Times On Tuesday evening one of us will vote against Theresa May’s deal. The other will vote in favour. One of us will vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s amendment — and for any motion of no confidence in the government. The other will vote against. One of us is Welsh…

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Theresa May’s Dog’s Dinner Of A Brexit Deal Looks Almost Certain To Fall

05 Dec 2018

The Mirror Theresa May’s dog’s dinner of a Brexit deal looks almost certain to fall on Tuesday, not least because MPs know that it hands far too much power to the EU after 29 March. With no appetite for an economy-shattering No Deal, her own cabinet ministers must now persuade…

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Norway Is The Only Way To Avoid The Cliff

29 Nov 2018

New European Let’s be clear: Theresa May’s Brexit deal is a thumping victory for the EU, whichever way you slice it. On March 29, 2019 our country will effectively become a vassal state for the 21 months of the transition period – complying with all EU rules but without any…

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We Need A Chief Government Linguist To Promote Modern Languages

28 Nov 2018

House Magazine Languages are a vital part of our society and economy and yet their importance is neglected and overlooked. Being able to speak directly to those we deal with is an essential part of being a global citizen. But in the United Kingdom, the number studying a language is…

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Reaching Out To Reunite

27 Nov 2018

I gave the opening keynote speech at the Common Futures Forum, at Plexal City in the Olympic Park, to 500 young people from across Europe. You can read my speech below: REACHING OUT TO UNITE Thank you all very much, and thank you Mete(Coban) for that very kind introduction. A…

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Russia-West Relations In The Age Of Fragmentation

14 Nov 2018

The world is arguably more fragmented and polarised than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War. The wave of optimism and internationalism that swept all before it in the 1990s has given way to a rising tide of nationalism. The seemingly unstoppable forward march…

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Pride And Paranoia – The Putin Influence

07 Nov 2018

Progress ‘What’s the definition of the Soviet Union?’ ‘Well, it’s where the workers pretend to work, and the bosses pretend to pay them.’ Of all the many jokes about the Soviet times that I heard during the three years that I lived in St Petersburg, this was probably my favourite.…

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