Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall is pleased to confirm that our upcoming 2026 National Conference will be held at the Cornwall Council offices in Truro on Saturday 24th October. We are working to make this event our best National Conference for many years, and it also will mark MK’s 75th anniversary year. More information about the event will follow in the near-future but, in the meantime, please put it in your diary. …
The new Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, who is also the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has been writing to local councils about the possibility of devolution. In the letter received by Cornwall Council and many other local authorities on 16th July, she wrote that she was “laser focused” on “pushing power out of Whitehall.” She added that she wanted to invite councils “to partner with [her] Government to deliver the most ambitious programme of devolution this…
Cornwall Council has also published a new “national minority” report, which will be used to help politicians, opinion-formers and public bodies understand their obligations to the Cornish national minority and Cornwall. The report has been written by Ian Saltern and Claire Tripp, from the Azook Community Interest Company, for the National Minority Working Group chaired by Cllr Dick Cole. For the online version, see: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/c30m0joh/the-cornish-a-uk-national-minority-web.pdf …
The leader of Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall has written to Cornwall’s six new MPs seeking their support and engagement with a re-energised push for meaningful devolution for Cornwall. An extract from the letter from Cllr Dick Cole, on behalf of the MK National Executive, is as follows: “I asked me to write to you all about the need for meaningful devolution for Cornwall. Firstly, I have been tasked to thank you for taking your parliamentary oaths in…
The five Group Leaders on Cornwall Council – which includes Cllr Dick Cole, who is the leader of the Mebyon Kernow / Green Party group on the authority – have sent a letter to the Prime Minister calling for Cornwall to have a seat on the proposed Council of Nations and Regions. The letter states: “The rationale for this request is based on the fact that, like the Welsh, Scottish and Irish, the Cornish people and the language are recognised and…
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…
