We Cannot Afford To Lose The British Steel Industry

17 Jan 2023

Politics Home The announcement of the likely loss of 440 jobs at Liberty Steel is a devastating blow. My sympathies lie with those loyal steelworkers who have given their all to the industry, with their families who rely on these well-paid and meaningful jobs, and with the towns for which…

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We Must Be Ready To Go With The FLOW

10 Jan 2023

South Wales Evening Post We must be ready to go with the FLOW, writes Stephen Kinnock MP and David Rees MS as they call on the Welsh and UK governments to back the Celtic Freeport bid, as the key to putting Port Talbot and Milford Haven at the heart of…

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Go With The FLOW

19 Dec 2022

Politics Home With rising energy costs and fuel-supply shortages, this winter is not going to be easy. The war in Ukraine has also brought into sharper focus the nation’s vulnerability to geopolitical forces. The United Kingdom cannot afford to be timid or lacking in strategic thinking in our decisions. The…

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Mum’s Here With Us, Yet Already Gone

26 Sep 2022

The Sunday Times Glenys Kinnock was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s five years ago. Now her children are urging more people to join the drive for better treatment When people talk about Alzheimer’s, they often describe it as a “cruel” or “horrible” disease. It’s hard to imagine any disease that isn’t either…

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The Queen’s Speech

18 May 2022

The Local Elections results across the UK sent the Conservatives a clear message about the cost-of-living crisis – yet the Queen’s Speech offers struggling households nothing.   The 05 May local elections saw the Conservatives lose almost 500 council seats across Britain as the public delivered its verdict on the Conservative…

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Community Spirit Within The Aberavon Constituency

04 Oct 2021

Together Again, Radix Thousands of pounds for flood victims Community has always been one of the biggest strengths of the Aberavon constituency in good times and bad and this has been more evident than ever over the course of the last year and the awful impact the Covid 19 pandemic…

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Steel Renewal Fund

26 Sep 2021

Commenting on Labour’s pledge to create a £3 billion Steel Renewal Fund, Stephen Kinnock – MP for Aberavon which is home to the Port Talbot steelworks – said: “Our steelworkers make the best steel that money can buy, but for a decade they’ve been held back and let down by…

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UK Government Must See Sense And Cancel Universal Credit Cut

17 Sep 2021

South Wales Evening Post For the last year the £20 a week increase to Universal Credit has been a lifeline to some of the most vulnerable in Aberavon and across the country. So, the UK government’s plan to cut the uplift at the end of the month has left many…

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Cut To Universal Credit Rise Condemned As Pandemic Sees Thousands More Claim In Aberavon

08 Jul 2021

ABERAVON MP Stephen Kinnock has condemned plans by the UK Government to reverse a £20 rise in Universal Credit as thousands more working people have claimed the benefit in the constituency since the start of the pandemic. More than 2,000 new claimants were registered in the Aberavon constituency since the…

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EU Settlement Scheme

29 Jun 2021

Thousands of EU citizens currently living in Britain are facing the prospect of proving their right to remain in this country after the UK Government instructed them to achieve EU Settled Status by tomorrow (June 30). Fortunately for people like Andres Garcia who came to Wales from Spain in 1991…

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Why steel safeguards are vital for the industry

20 Jun 2021

I was quoted in an article in The Observer today (Sunday June 20) on the importance of crucial steel safeguards being maintained to protect the industry which employs thousands of people in the Aberavon constituency. If the Conservative government fails to vote with Labour on steel safeguards tomorrow (Monday June…

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Victory For Post Talbot Mum After Two Year Benefits Appeal

16 May 2021

Great to see this appalling story getting the front page coverage it deserves. Port Talbot supermarket worker Wendy Dykes suffered life changing injuries after a chemical accident at work but was then forced to endure a two year legal battle to secure disability benefits which were rightfully hers. Thankfully, with…

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Local MPs Support DVLA Ballot For Strike Action

22 Feb 2021

The South Wales Evening Post has today published a joint letter from myself and fellow Welsh Labour MPs Geraint Davies MP, Nia Griffith MP, Tonia Antoniazzi MP, Carolyn Harris MP, and Christina Rees MP supporting a ballot for strike action by the PCS Union of staff at the DVLA in…

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Call For Westminster To Secure Steel Future

16 Jan 2021

UK steel forms the backbone of manufacturing; there can be no post-Covid recovery without steel. Across Wales we make the best steel money can buy and in Saturday’s South Wales Evening Post, Robert Lloyd covered a letter from Jessica Morden MP, Mark Tami MP, Nia Griffith MP & I urging…

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The Chancellor’s Choice Will Cost Our Communities Dearly

02 Dec 2020

South Wales Evening Post When Rishi Sunak stood up in the Commons to deliver his Spending Review, he had two options: he could have announced spending plans to stimulate the economy, or he could have reverted to cuts and pay freezes that make any recovery longer and harder. He chose…

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Statement on Tata Steel Group Announcement

13 Nov 2020

Today (13 November) the board of Tata Steel Group announced that it has decided to work towards the sale of Tata Steel Netherlands to the Swedish steel company, SSAB. Responding to the announcement Stephen Kinnock, the Member of Parliament for Aberavon, home of the Port Talbot steel works, said: “Steel…

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Britain, We Need Our Steel

09 Oct 2020

South Wales Evening Post Steel is synonymous with Port Talbot. The works have been the beating heart of our community for generations. The town grew around the steelworks, at its height nearly 20,000 people worked there, and the Sandfields estate was built to house the workforce. It’s a massive part…

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Google Digital Garage returns to Aberavon

07 Oct 2020

I am teaming up with technology giant Google to give local businesses the tools they need to stand out in an increasingly competitive online market. We joined forces with Google to bring the first ever Google Digital Garage event to Port Talbot in November 2016. The event was designed to…

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Resilient towns must be at the heart of our post-pandemic recovery

10 Sep 2020

House Magazine Now is the time for the Government to recognise the UK’s city-centric economic model is broken. We need to build more resilient towns and commit to re-building our manufacturing sector. At the heart of my Aberavon constituency sits Port Talbot – a proud, industrial, seaside town with a…

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Resilient towns must be at the heart of our post-pandemic recovery

26 Aug 2020

LabourList At the heart of my Aberavon constituency sits Port Talbot, a genuinely welcoming seaside town in South Wales with a proud industrial, steelmaking history, surrounded by villages and valleys that add so much character to our local area. Our steelworks remain front-and-centre to the town’s economy and identity –…

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This Isolationist UK Government Must Do More To Stand Up For The Rohingya

14 Aug 2020

Burma Campaign As the recently appointed Shadow Minister for Asia and the Pacific I have come to understand just how isolated and absent from the global stage consecutive Conservative governments have left the UK. Many on the government benches celebrated Brexit as a chance to reshape our global alliances and…

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