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Sketty Primary School children talk Climate Action with Geraint Davies MP

Geraint Davies, Swansea West MP, is visiting Sketty Primary School to talk about his work in particular in relation to the Environment, during Parliament Week on Tuesday 5 November. Parliament Week is a is a programme of events and activities that connects people with Parliament and democracy in the UK, which schools…

Geraint Davies MP supports First Minister’s bid for more time to assess the Brexit Deal in Wales

Geraint Davies, the Labour MP for Swansea West, joined up with Wales’ first minister Mark Drakeford to ask the government to give the Welsh Assembly more time to establish what the latest deal means for Wales. Said Mr Davies, “it’s no use repeating ‘Get Brexit done’ and rushing forward with…

Extinction Rebellion are right to be angry. The Environment Bill fails to live up to the environmental crisis we are in.

(A version of this article was published in the Independent 20/10/2019) The decision to ban thousands of Extinction Rebellion protesters from London’s streets cannot hide the widening gulf between the public and political leaders over climate change. Protestors know that the window for preventing irreversible climate change is swiftly closing. Meanwhile, the government…

Geraint Davies, MP commits to making Swansea safer

Geraint Davies Labour MP for Swansea West has met up with Joanna Maal Swansea Neath Port Talbot Police Chief Superintendent to commit to working together Said Geraint Davies MP Swansea West “ I’m very impressed with the professionalism, focus and drive of Police Chief Joanna Maal who’s been in post since…

Geraint speaks out for Swansea climate change protestors who join him in protest.

Swansea West MP, Geraint Davies, met up with Swansea Extinction Rebellion protestors and spoke out against the government’s failure to take urgent action on climate change as thousands stood protesting outside Parliament. Speaking in Parliament Mr Davies said, “Climate change is not an inconvenient truth, as Al Gore put it.…

MP warns ‘getting Brexit done’ is the start not the end of a painful journey for people in Swansea

Today, Geraint Davies Labour MP for Swansea West, speaking in Parliament said for Swansea ‘getting Brexit done’ would mean lost jobs and income and years of negotiating trade deals from a weakened position outside the EU. Said Geraint Davies MP, “Slogans like ‘get Brexit done’ are intentionally misleading and divide…

Johnson urged to clean UK of toxic air with new Clean Air Act

A new Clean Air Bill has been presented in parliament to give people the right to Clean Air and drastically reduce the illegally high levels of pollution in south Wales. The levels of Nitrogen Dioxide, largely produced by diesel vehicles, is almost double the legal limit in South Wales. In…

Waspi women campaign continues in Parliament says Swansea West MP

Today campaigners at the High Court lost a legal battle against the government’s handling of the rise in the women’s state pension age. The application to the court raised matters arising from the government policy of equalisation of the pension ages and its impact on women born in the…

Swansea MP & court petitioner is delighted to get back to work

The supreme court ruled that PM Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament was illegal. Geraint Davies, MP for Swansea West, was a petitioner in the case that found Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament illegal in both the Scottish Courts and now the Supreme Court. Mr Davies said: “The Supreme court…

Geraint Davies praises climate strikes in Swansea

Hundred of people closed up shop, left school or work to attend the climate strikes in Castle Square Swansea and the march to Brangwyn Hall. Geraint Davies, Labour MP for Swansea West, said: “This action, which I welcome, is part of the global strike movement inspired by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg,…

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