Caerphilly MP Wayne David has been re-appointed to the front bench justice team by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr David will be responsible for criminal justice and devolution issues and will lead the opposition to ‘English votes for English laws’.
He will also focus on youth justice and helping victims.
Mr David previously served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed Miliband and as Shadow Minister for Constitutional Reform.
He spoke of “dire consequences” should Mr Corbyn win the leadership election, but has since called for unity in the party, and his appointment is part of the opposition’s broad shadow cabinet team.
Mr David said: “I am pleased to be playing a full and leading role in both scrutinising and opposing Government policy, while helping to develop Labour’s policies in key areas.
“Although I did not vote for Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership, it is now important that we pull together as a Labour Party to prepare for next year’s important elections and the general election in 2020.”
For an MP who warned Jeremy Corbyn would have “dire consequences” and party supporters are “risking the party’s destruction, or turning back the clock before it’s too late,” he is happy jump into a junior minister post.
Surely if he had principles he would refuse to work alongside someone whose election has dire consequences, and work on finding a way to make Labour electable.
i must strongly disagree a protest like refusing to work with corbyn would mean he has no say in what happens as a funtbench mp Wayne is in a good position to put forward an alternate point of view and Wayne has the right idea to unify as a divided labor party will never be able to end tory austerity
Why on Earth do you want to end Tory austerity? It is needed.
I am personally against English votes for English laws as I am against devolution and the assembly’s in general. But if I were asking for more devo-powers I wouldn’t have the audacity to refuse the right to others, hypocrisy stinks.
That tofu comment comes to mind regarding his appointment, haha.
A professional politician.
I agree. However, I think English votes for English laws is an improvement on the current state. All devolution should be reversed and replaced by decentralisation down to local councils. I doubt we will see politicians brave enough to reverse devolution.
That is the point exactly, there is no harm in local government having a big role and budget to match. The problem is the Assembly form of local government which has given us ‘Wee Burney’ wielding huge influence in Scotland and Jones doing the same in Cardiff.
When England was offered the same rubbishy system, in a referendum in the North East, they sensibly rejected it. I want a council to look after the nuts and bolts of roads, schools, libraries, etc, an MP to represent me in parliament and no AM or MEP at all. The latter are an expensive luxury that do little constructive work.
Unfortunately I can’t see the necessary reforms coming in the near future and English people will continue, with some justification, to push for English votes for English laws. This will just diminish the influence of Welsh MPs in parliament which will once more become an important legislative body once we are out of the EU.
Couldn’t agree more, although I will inject the caveat that local councils should always have frameworks to work within and have to justify decisions outside that framework to both the public and central government.
I also doubt that there are any politicians who are even inclined to do this let alone brave enough.
I think it was the Blair government that talked about this but never did it. Another reason to dislike the man.