JONATHAN T CLARK FOR NEWPORT WEST

Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales, has confirmed Jonathan T Clark as its candidate for the Newport West constituency for the forthcoming Westminster Parliamentary Elections.  

Jonathan  T Clark said:

"I am pleased to have been re-selected to contest Newport West constituency at the Westminster Parliamentary Elections. For far too long the people of Newport West have suffered from the fact that whoever is in power in Westminster, or Cardiff Bay, they all of whom have failed to consider the economic and social needs of the people of this constituency.“

He said:

“The people of Newport West need an MP who will actually put the real concerns of the electors of Newport to the forefront rather than party interests. Wales needs more Plaid MPs in Westminster to work with the Plaid AMs in Cardiff to deliver for the people of Wales. The only way to get a government that will always put Wales at the centre of its policies is to vote Plaid Cymru at the next Westminster Parliamentary Elections".

Jonathan continued:

‘We still need to take No Deal of the table. A realistic deal needs good will on both sides. The alarming combination of half-threat, half-promise approach to the Brexit negotiations still remains shocking.  We will soon be nearly three years and a half years down the line and appear no closer to deciding on the detail of what we want or how to get it - an extension to the process would be a good place to start - so we don’t end up with a disastrous damaging no deal.’

He concluded:

“I would hope to bring a combination of curiosity, stubbornness, tenacity and a real desire to seek the truth combined the skills acquired working as a journalist, in public relations for the police, in public sector education and recruitment. I have the ability to seek the truth and an understanding as to where it can be concealed which would be useful while working as a parliamentary representative in Westminster.”

DIWEDD / ENDS

Notes to Editors

Candidates Biography:

Jonathan T Clark, is married and lives in Newport, the city of his birth. Born (in 1966) and brought up in Newport and educated at St Julian’s Comprehensive School, Newport, the University of Wales, Lampeter (BA (Hons) History), the University of Wales, Newport (MA Celto-Roman Studies) and an MPhil in Roman Archaeology from Cardiff University.

Jonathan has been actively involved in every Plaid campaign in South East Wales since 1998, he is prospective parliamentary candidate for Newport West. He was the Plaid candidate in the recent Newport West by-election in April 2019 and previously contested Monmouth constituency in the Westminster Elections (2005, 2010 and 2015), the National Assembly Election's (2007 and 2016) and was on Plaid's SE Regional List (2011 and 2016).

Jonathan has a passing interest in the consequences of peak everything and is interested in social justice, the growing problem of affords housing, energy independence, land tenure, public access, policing, equal pay, integrated public transport, our economy and the consequences of the former war on terror and enduring threats to civil liberties. He is a keen hill walker and longtime supporter of Newport County Football Club (since 1978/79), The Newport Gwent Dragons and has a keen interest in archaeology, politics and history. 

Since 2016, Jonathan works in recruitment in Cardiff, previously working in Marketing and IT at the former University of Newport (from 1998 until 2015) before its demise.  Before that he worked for the Metropolitan Police Service press office - the Directorate of Public Affairs and Internal Communication, living and working in London between 1990 and 1998. He worked as a trainee journalist at the Pontypool Free Press before moving to London for work.