AS WELSH peace activists take their campaign opposing space radar to Westminster, they have challenged Pembrokeshire Labour MP Henry Tufnell to speak out on the issue.

In 2024, the government confirmed plans to develop a major space radar station at Cawdor Barracks in Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, part of a network of ground-based radars in Australia, Britain and the United States providing “global space monitoring.” Campaigners fear it could allow unstable US President Donald Trump to dominate space from Wales, making the country a target.

The Pembrokeshire Against the Radar Campaign says it has written to its local MP several times but claims Mr Tufnell ignores its letters.

A Parc spokesman said: “We invited Henry to table a parliamentary early-day motion on our behalf, yet he did not even have the courtesy to respond to our emails.”

CND Cymru chairman Mabon ap Gwynfor said: “Our MPs should stand up for their communities, not for a chaotic president in the United States. We do not want to be a proxy player in [US President Donald] Trump’s imperial ambition to militarise space.”

The battle to stop space-war radar in Wales will now play out in Westminster as an early-day motion has been tabled by Plaid Cymru’s defence spokeswoman Liz Saville Roberts calling for the plan to be scrapped.