In an adjournment debate secured by North Somerset MP Liam Fox to back a rail link to Portishead, Bristol North West MP Darren Jones made the case that stronger and better integrated rail links are required across north Bristol, starting with the Henbury Loop Line. Commenting on Facebook, Jones said: Bristol faces some of the […]
In the House of Commons this evening, Bristol North West MP Darren Jones pressed Ministers for a guarantee that the Department for Transport will continue to provide support to Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees in his work to ensure the city meets its air pollution targets.
Bristol North West MP Darren Jones has received a reply from Nick Gibb, the School Standards Minister, to his letter urging investment in maintained nurseries. Jones said: This is a deeply disappointing reply: it rehearses the Government’s talking points on early years spending but fails to address any of the specific issues raised in my […]
Bristol North West MP Darren Jones this evening launched The Next Recession and Labour’s Response, an original pamphlet which can be read at the link here. In it, he argues for a bold strategy both to fight a near-term recession (hastened by a no-deal Brexit) and to reshape the economy around the 21st century’s towering challenges […]
MP for Bristol North West Darren Jones has written to the new Children’s Minister, Kemi Badenoch, to ask for more money for state-funded nursery schools. Darren said: “Maintained nurseries face real uncertainty about their long-term funding. Although the Department for Education has announced a stop-gap spending package of £24 million, nursery providers in Bristol North […]
The scourge of flies in and around Avonmouth is making life intolerable for residents — as last night’s Inside Out West made clear, their prevalence gets in the way of eating, sleeping and everyday life. Although it gets worse during sunny spells, this is now a year-round problem, and people feel trapped. As Darrenargued on […]
The Government have been forced by Parliament to publish their central planning assumptions document for a n0-deal Brexit — it includes “lorries facing waits of between 1.5 days and 2.5 days to cross the border,” disruption to medical supplies and shortages of certain kinds of food, and isn’t even the worst-case scenario. The human cost […]
Commenting on the Scottish appeal court’s verdict that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was unlawful, Bristol North West MP Darren Jones said: Boris Johnson broke the law: that’s the unanimous finding of Scotland’s most senior judges, who this morning ruled that the decision to shutter Parliament was about dodging scrutiny. So far, so obvious — […]
Tackling climate change means every element of Government and the wider economy pulling in the same direction: this was the key finding from the cross-party Science and Technology Committee’s recent ‘Clean Growth’ report, which lays out a roadmap for decarbonising our economy on or ahead of the Government’s 2050 net-zero target. Darren had the privilege […]
Reflecting on Boris Johnson’s attempt to force an early election through the House of Commons, Bristol North West MP Darren Jones said: “I’m all for an election once no-deal has definitively been taken off the table, but to agree to one now would hand Boris Johnson a blank cheque to take Britain over the cliff-edge […]
