12.10am: That’s it! There are still a few results coming in around the UK, but everything has been one and dusted in Wales, and at a reasonable hour. Perhaps we should do all elections like this? Despite the result being historic, it all went exactly as expected in Wales, with […]
Bridgend Council has sent a landlord a letter threatening a fine over a Cofiwch Dryweryn ‘advertisement’ painted on the side of the building. The landlord of Freya Bletsoe, the owner of the Ella & Riley sweet shop in the town on which the mural is painted, received the letter saying […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home AMs debate 20 years of the economy under devolution The Motion The Senedd: Notes the Welsh Government’s failure to realise Wales’ economic potential over the past 20 years. Doesn’t believe the Welsh Government’s Prosperity for All: Economic Action Plan is sufficiently ambitious to deliver significant improvement to […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home Proposed £100 million Rail Technology Centre “could be the best in the world” Economy & Transport Minister, Ken Skates (Lab, Clwyd South) has updated AMs on a proposed £100million Global Rail Centre of Excellence – which would be built on a former opencast mine at Onllwyn, near […]
Plaid Cymru Leader Adam Price has written to the leaders of pro-Remain parties, calling on them to agree voting recommendations ahead of Thursday’s European Parliament election. There have been fears that, while the pro-Brexit vote has coalesced around the Brexit Party, the Remain vote has split between Plaid Cymru, the […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home First Minister’s Questions With the European Parliament elections taking place on Thursday and the recently recognised Brexit Party making a first appearance, it was hardly surprising that the spectre of Brexit loomed large over First Minister’s Questions Adam Price AM (Plaid, Carms. E. & Dinefwr) pointed to […]
A second consecutive YouGov poll for the EU Elections has seen the usual political order in Wales uprooted as the Brexit Party and Plaid Cymru take the lead. The YouGov/ITV poll was due to be kept under wraps until 6pm tonight but was tweeted out by Brexit Party Assembly Member […]
Plaid Cymru have overtaken Labour in a YouGov poll for the European elections, pushing Jeremy Corbyn’s party into third place in Wales. The 9,260 sample poll across the UK shows the Brexit Party on 35%, Plaid Cymru on 19% and Labour on 15% in Wales. The Liberal Democrats are on […]
In the last three years, councils across Wales paid out millions to over 750 members of staff who were suspended from duty, leading to calls by the Welsh Conservatives for an independent investigation. The data was obtained via Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by the Welsh Conservatives, showing that 16 […]
Yesterday (May 15th), four AMs defected to the Brexit Party following days of speculation which peaked after Mark Reckless AM left the Conservative group. Last week, The Western Mail’s Martin Shipton reported that Reckless, along with Caroline Jones AM, Mandy Jones AM and UKIP’s David Rowlands were in discussions with […]
