The Government’s Response To The Steel Crisis Has Been A Mixture Of Incompetence And Indifference

04 Apr 2016

From The Sunday Mirror With the steel crisis of this week we have seen the Tory government at its incompetent and indifferent worst, and it is my constituents and thousands like them all over the UK who are paying the price. That Tata would announce that they planned to sell…

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Steel’s not a sunset industry – it’s the lynchpin of our economy

01 Apr 2016

New Statesman The British government has been in a state of denial about the steel crisis, ever since David Cameron moved into Downing Street. They have time and time again failed to act. The steelworks at Port Talbot is the beating heart of my constituency, and in my year in Parliament…

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As MP for Port Talbot, I believe Brexit would be disastrous for British steel

31 Mar 2016

Guardian On Tuesday Tata Steel announced its intention to sell the entire Strip Products division of its UK steel business, including the Port Talbot works in my Aberavon constituency. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Tata Steel announcement, on both local and national levels. Locally, the Port…

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Steeling ourselves for the future – the Government must now act to save Port Talbot

30 Mar 2016

LabourList Tata Steel’s decision to seek a buyer for the entire strip products division of its UK operation will have a direct impact on up to 40,000 jobs across the length and breadth of the country. As such it is without doubt amongst the most important business decisions that post-War…

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Steel 2020

15 Mar 2016

Labour List As we opened our papers this morning or scrolled though the news on our phones we will have been greeted with the latest updates on the civil war taking place within the Conservative Party, made a little more juicy thanks to a certain someone who is most notable…

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Three reasons why the government will struggle to secure a good exit deal if Britain votes to leave the EU

09 Mar 2016

City AM The path from now until referendum day on 23 June will be dominated by what is the most important debate our country has faced in a generation. There will undoubtedly be a fair amount of emotive rhetoric, and quite rightly so. But it is equally important that the…

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Britain in Europe, Europe in Britain: the new patriotism in action

31 Jan 2016

Labour Movement For Europe Labour must not allow the EU referendum to be about deciding whether or not Polish plumbers or Latvian taxi drivers are allowed to claim tax credits. Rather, we must ensure that we make this a referendum about what sort of country we want to live in,…

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David Cameron Urged To Press Ahead With Swansea Tidal Lagoon And Told To Build It With Port Talbot steel

25 Jan 2016

Western Mail A Welsh MP has called on the UK Government to “show some leadership” by giving a full commitment to using British steel for the Swansea Tidal Lagoon project. Following the announcement that Tata Steel will cut over 1,000 jobs in the face of a growing industry crisis, Labour’s…

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A Disgrace That David Cameron Is Not Helping Our Steel Works

22 Jan 2016

The Mirror I am calling on the Government to guarantee they will buy British steel for these ships. These contracts are worth hundreds of jobs British steelworkers will feel incredibly let down if the steel for the Global Combat Ships is bought from foreign firms. We produce the best steel…

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Cheap Chinese Steel The Greatest Issue For Industry, Says MP

22 Jan 2016

BBC Wales Online Dumping of Chinese steel is the greatest issue that the British steel industry faces, Aberavon Labour MP Stephen Kinnock has said. It follows Monday’s announcement of more than 1,000 job losses at steel giant Tata, 750 in Port Talbot. He said: “The European Union sets the rules…

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Don’t Ban Putin From Britain, But Russia Should Lose The World Cup

22 Jan 2016

The Times Yesterday’s report into the death of Alexander Litvinenko was shocking and deeply disturbing. But it was not a big surprise, as we have always known that this terrible act had a connection to the Russian state. The government must now send a strong signal to Moscow: state-sponsored murder…

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Look to Davos for partners for a new kind of growth

22 Jan 2016

Progress I worked at the World Economic Forum in Geneva from January 2009 until 2012, and I will never forget the febrile mood of my first Davos in January 2009, just a few months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. I don’t mean the personal sense of ‘new kid on…

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Time for Tata Steel, the workforce, the trade unions and the government to pull together

08 Jan 2016

The Mirror Britain’s largest steelworks is at risk of closure with thousands of jobs at stake. Union leaders and local politicians are calling for bosses Tata to come up with an urgent rescue plan for Port Talbot, warning: “It is 10 minutes to midnight.” The plant in South Wales is…

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Why it’s time to pull together to safeguard ‘truly iconic’ Port Talbot steelworks

08 Jan 2016

Wales Online Anyone who’s ever driven up or down the M4 between Cardiff and Swansea will have seen it – a vast industrial complex, with the two blast furnaces towering over the rest of the works, and the town of Port Talbot and the stunning Aberavon beach stretching off into…

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Splits and reshuffles? Let’s not go there

03 Jan 2016

The Guardian To say that 2015 was a difficult year for Labour party is an understatement. Still reeling from the crushing defeat at the ballot box in May, we rushed headlong into the most divisive leadership election in living memory and, from there, straight into a maelstrom of in-fighting, factionalism…

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Trading For Peace

30 Dec 2015

I contributed a chapter to Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East’s Making the progressive case for peace in Palestine and Israel: Labour Party policies to support the rule of law and human rights. My chapter is entitled Trading For Peace and you can read it below. Introduction The UK and EU’s public position…

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Partners For A New Kind Of Growth

21 Dec 2015

Progress Over the course of the last parliament the Labour party made several attempts to create a new narrative on the economy, and to stimulate a debate around the role of business within that narrative. Phrases such as ‘responsible capitalism’ and ‘pro-business, but not pro-business as usual’ were the watchwords.…

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Russia: A Genuine Reset

21 Dec 2015

Outward To The World, Fabian Society A new relationship can be established with Russia by truly understanding its history, culture, interests and foreign policy objectives. This should form the the basis of a new doctrine – ‘respect-based realism’ – through which two deeply damaging conflicts that can only feasibly be resolved through…

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Corbyn Must Compromise To Win

18 Dec 2015

Interview The Times Stephen Kinnock has told hard left activists who are more interested in protest than forming a government to quit the Labour party. In a sideswipe at some of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters, the newly elected Labour MP said that failing to concentrate all their energies on regaining power…

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15 Questions With Stephen Kinnock

11 Nov 2015

Huffington Post Having a famous name can be a curse and a blessing. To many, when you hear the name Kinnock, the image of former Labour leader Neil immediately springs to mind. But if his son Stephen carries on in his current trajectory then a new generation may well defer…

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Aberavon MP Speaks on Trade Union Bill

11 Nov 2015

Stephen Kinnock, MP for Aberavon, has spoken in the House of Commons in the debate on the Government’s controversial Trade Union Bill. Mr Kinnock spoke at the Bill’s Committee Stage, where MPs are required to address specific clauses or amendments to the Bill. He focussed on the sections of the…

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