Mebyon Kernow would like to thank all MPs who have signed Ben Lake’s Early Day Motion in the House of Commons, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Cornish securing national minority status. The 13 MPs are as follows: Ben Lake, Liz Saville-Roberts and Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru) Deidre Brock, Dave Doogan, Allan Dorans, Anne McLaughlin, Gavin Newlands and Richard Thomson (SNP) Mary Kelly Foy (Labour) Jonathan Edwards and Angus MacNeil (Independents) Jim Shannon (DUP) The motion notes the importance of…

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On 24th April 2014, the Cornish were recognised as a national minority by the UK Government through the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The official government press release stated that “the decision to recognise the unique identity of the Cornish, now affords them the same status … as the UK’s other Celtic people, the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish.” On 20th April 2024, MK published a public challenge to central government, MPs, would-be MPs…

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A Plaid Cymru MP has today tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons marking the 10th anniversary of the Cornish securing national minority status. The motion, as submitted by Ben Lake the member of parliament for Ceredigion, notes the importance of the recognition of the Cornish, but expresses concern that “the UK Government has yet to fully meets its obligations under the Framework Convention.” The full text of EDM 672 is as follows: “That this House marks the…

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Today is the tenth anniversary of the recognition of the Cornish as a “national minority” through the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The UK Government made it clear that the Cornish would be afforded “the same status … as the UK’s other Celtic people, the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish.” But there has since been a decade of inaction and a manifest failure from the Westminster establishment to deliver on their promises from 2014. On St Piran’s…

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The statement launched by Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall at today’s “national minority” event has also been published in Cornish. The full version is as follows: Res yw gre minoryta rag an Gernowyon styr parder gans “Albanyon, Kembryon hag Iwerdhonyon.” 2024 a verk an degves penn-bloodh a’n Governans RU owth aswon Kernowyon avel minoryta kenedhlek dres Akord Framweyth Konsel Europa rag Gwitha Minorytys Kenedhlek. Hemm o pols bras rag agan kenedhel awos bos an Akord Framweyth kevambos keswlasek meur…

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Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall today held a meeting in Truro to mark the coming tenth anniversary [Wednesday 24th April] of the Cornish being recognised as a “national minority,” when central government promised  that “the decision to recognise the unique identity of the Cornish, now affords them the same status … as the UK’s other Celtic people, the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish.” Party members and others present expressed their disappointment that the Westminster establishment had failed to…

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