#Live from the Labour Animal Welfare Society event: animal champion @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social is calling for Government to get on with progressing her Bill on fur.
Right now, animals are suffering as part of the global fur trade, putting public heath at risk.
Itβs time for a #FurFreeBritain! π¦
Thank you to all of the incredible speakers who shared crucial insight and spoke out in support of cracking down on wildlife crime.
@ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social, @dom70.bsky.social, @naturewatch.org & Born Free.
#AnimalsMatter and they deserve to be protected from criminals.
This is heartbreaking, Hefin was a great colleague, always a team player and hugely collegiate.
My thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.
Today I have written to the Foreign Secretary David Lammy expressing my concerns over the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
A group of Welsh MPs and others holding the FA flag and the Welsh flag.
Tonight at 8pm, in just over an hour, the Wales Women's Football Team will take on France in the UEFA Women's EURO 2025.
My fellow Welsh MPs gathered in Westminster today to wish them the best of luck and I'll certainly be glued to the score throughout.
White background with black text, text reads: "Statement Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Second Reading I have listened, carefully, to the debate and discussions around the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. I believe in a strong welfare state, one that protects our most vulnerable as a core principle and that we have a moral obligation to build a better, more caring, society. I maintain that our welfare system desperately needs reform, however in the last few months representations from constituents, charity and advocacy groups have made it clear that the Bill, as it was first presented, was not one I could vote for. This is why I signed the reasoned amendment. There are elements within the Bill like the "Right to Try" guarantee, increasing funding to help people into work and increasing Universal Credit that I did not want to see lost, which was a real possibility if the Bill fell. With the commitment yesterday from the Government to remove Clause 5 which maintained the need to achieve four points in at least one section of the daily living section of the assessment, I felt that I could finally vote for the Bill. I will be scrutinising the text of the Bill closely when it comes back to the House on the 9th of July and would like to thank everyone who has contacted me about this in the last few months. We can build that better, fairer, Britain, but only if we do so together."
Yesterday, thanks to the Government's intervention, I voted for the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill at its Second Reading.
Please see my statement below.
Black text on a white background. That this House, while noting the need to change the rates of benefits to people in need of State support and welcoming the much-needed increase in the standard rate of Universal Credit, declines to give a Second Reading to the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, because it does not contain any proven and effective measures to improve employment support beyond what Personal Independence Payment (PIP) achieves for many disabled people, and which should be implemented alongside any changes to benefits; it contains dangerous and counterproductive cuts to entitlements aimed at disabled people, rather than proposing a framework which would facilitate all disabled people getting adequate financial and other support to thrive in society; it fails to reform PIP to make it more effective as a means of supporting employed people in work; it lacks measures to take proper account of the needs of people with severe fluctuating long-term conditions, including serious mental ill-health; it does not contain measures to improve the support from health services and local social services given to disabled people; it will lead to many unpaid carers no longer being eligible for Carerβs Allowance because the person they care for no longer qualifies for PIP; it has not been subject to full impact assessments; and it does not contain proposals to proactively work with disabled people to co-produce changes to the welfare system that will treat those in need of social security with dignity and respect.
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I am one of over 100 Labour MPs that have signed this amendment to the UC & PIP Bill. Reform to the benefits system is urgently needed, but I cannot support this Bill as it stands.
It should be given further time for consideration, and disabled people and charities must be properly consulted on it.
Yes I do! Good article by the BBC on making us a #FurFreeBritain
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social has spoken up for animals at every opportunity.Β
Her Fur (Import & Sale) Bill will help protect millions of animals from being killed for their fur. We need MPs to do the right thing and take a stand against this cruelty, too.
#FurFreeBritain
Employment minister Alison McGovern came to Blackwood today for a roundtable discussion on welfare support.
We all came to the table with our own experiences of the system, and left with a determination to make it better.
Thank you to Caerphilly Council, Citizens Advice, and everyone who joined π€
Proudly wearing my #FurFreeBritain badge for PMQs
This week, we delivered more than 1 million signatures, all calling for a ban on fur imports, to Number 10.
If my Fur Bill passes on #FridayFurteenth, it would do just that.
Letβs finally put the fur trade out of fashion.
Honour to officially open KLAβs new manufacturing, research and development centre in Newport West. π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ #madeinwales
Privilege to speak at the official opening of KLAβs new manufacturing, research and development centre in Newport West.
The tech made here is exported all across the world! π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
30 days until MPs vote on my Fur Bill. Itβs time for a #FurFreeBritain
Join my team!
Today is the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe. We must remember those who sacrificed everything for the freedoms we enjoy today. #VEDay80
Taking in beautiful views of the Wales Coast Path with Amanda and @dimitribatrouni.bsky.social
Just 4-min walk from the Six Bells which closed in 2018. The community has a plan to bring it back to life as a place to meet, buy local produce and learn more about the Gwent Levels!
#savethesixbells
50 days until my Fur (Import and Sale) Bill returns to Parliament.
By banning imports, we can finally end our part in the cruel fur trade, two decades after we banned fur farming.
Letβs get this done.
#FurFreeBritain
The father and son who drowned off the coast of Australia have been named as Robin and Owen, from Islwyn.
My heart goes out to the family and community who are grieving not one but two tragic losses in awful circumstances.
Their deaths have been reported to the Coroners Court of Queensland.
I sent FOI requests to the four Welsh police forces about dangerous dog stats. Their responses showed two things.
1. Dog control incidents have become increasingly common
2. Police data on this issue is inconsistent and incomplete
"We would be naΓ―ve to ignore the connection between animal suffering and human health... We know instinctively that this cruelty is wrong, [those] experts speaking out confirm that our moral outrage is backed by science." - @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social
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@fourpawsuk.bsky.social @humaneworlduk.bsky.social
Our moral outrage is backed by the science. The fur trade is not just cruel β it could cause the next pandemic.
Read my thoughts in the Mirror
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
A new office for our new constituency of Newport West and Islwyn. Thank you for the warm welcome, Newbridge! β€οΈ
This is the Plan for Change in action. 150,000 Welsh workers will get a pay rise from todayβs minimum wage increase. β¬οΈ
Ruth Jones MP speaking in front of a lectern with a room of people listening.
Cover of the Police, Crime and Justice Plan 2025-2029.
Pleased to speak at the launch of the Police, Crime and Justice Plan 2025-2029 today.
In taking a serious, strategic approach to tackling crime there is a clear commitment demonstrated in making our streets safer and allowing people to go about their day to day life feeling secure.
