Neil McEvoy, Leader of Propel Wales, is proposing that teaching three languages from day one of school, should be the norm in Wales. Mr McEvoy has introduced three amendments to a Plaid Cymru debate in the Senedd on education. The amendments call for investment for Welsh language immersion courses, teaching a modern foreign language from Year 1 of school and for support for class sizes to be cut to 20 children. Continue reading

Cllr Peter Read, the Leader of the Propel Group on Gwynedd Council has launched a petition to scrap LDPs in Wales. Continue reading

Propel leader, Neil McEvoy MS introduced the amendment to The Economy and Covid-19 Debate in the Senedd today. It calls for the Welsh Government to protect businesses by taking immediate action on the Covid-19 business rate relief and supporting those in the hospitality sector who are being currently charged full rent during lockdown.  Continue reading

Propel Leader Neil McEvoy called on the Welsh Government to support writing a Welsh Constitution and a bill of Rights. The Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central asked a topical question in the Senedd about community cohesion in light of the murder of George Floyd in the US.  Continue reading

Cllr Peter Read, who represents Abererch ward, has announced that he has joined Propel. He becomes the second Gwynedd Councillor to do so, after Cllr Dylan Bullard joined the party in April. Propel was formed at the beginning of this year and already boasts seven Councillors across three local authorities, as well as one member of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament). Continue reading

A Gwynedd Councillor, who represents Pwllheli North ward on Gwynedd Council has announced he will sit as a Propel Councillor. Cllr Bullard becomes the latest elected official to join the party after Cllr Martyn Peters on Neath Port Talbot Council joined, as well as four Councillors in Wales’ capital city. Party leader, Neil McEvoy also sits in the National Assembly for Wales for Propel. Continue reading

The Leader of the Propel Wales, Neil McEvoy AM, has submitted a motion to the Business Committee of the National Assembly for Wales calling for weekly business to resume in the Senedd. In recent weeks the National Assembly has met online only once a week, and for just a couple of hours, to hear statements, with no way for AMs to submit formal oral questions. Meanwhile, the parliaments in Edinburgh and London have begun returning to normal levels of business. Continue reading

The Leader of Propel Wales, Neil McEvoy AM, has called for the business of the National Assembly for Wales to recommence without delay. Mr McEvoy stated that the National Assembly had initially led the way on adapting to the Coronavirus pandemic by being the first Parliament in the UK to hold virtual plenary sessions, but that the Assembly was now failing in its duty to legislate for Wales. Continue reading

Neil McEvoy AM, Leader of Propel, has sent the following letter to Council leaders and the Police and Crime Commissioners in Wales.  Dear colleagues, I hope all your loved ones are well. I write formally as Leader of the Propel to express my serious disappointment at the apparent lack of pro-active action to prevent people travelling to holiday homes this weekend. Continue reading

The Leader of Propel has called for the Labour Welsh Government not to “squander” the time it has while the nation is in lockdown. Neil McEvoy AM said: “If we come out of this lockdown in the same position as we went into it then the time will have been largely wasted. We need to use this time to build capacity so that we can follow World Health Organization advice and test every suspected case of Coronavirus.” In Plenary, on the 24th of March the Welsh Health Minister, Vaughan Gething, admitted that they did not have the capacity for this, stating: “If I said that our ambition is to deliver wide-scale community testing now, actually we don't have the capacity to do that…” A further blow to wide-scale community testing came when it was announced that the Welsh Government’s deal with a private company for 5,000 tests a day collapsed. Continue reading