Hundreds of thousands of Welsh voters are set to ‘hold their nose’ and vote tactically in the General Election on 12th December, according to new polling for ERS Cymru by YouGov. The poll found that 29% of Welsh voters could turn to tactical voting in next month’s election – unable […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home The Motion The Senedd: Recognises that one in four people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the UK do not survive the disease beyond a month and three in four do not survive beyond a year, many because they were not treated quickly enough and also recognises there […]
The Conservative Party are on course to win key target seats in Wales and secure a comfortable majority overall, according to a polling model that accurately predicted the election outcome two years ago. Based on more than 100,000 interviews over seven days, YouGov has modelled voting preferences based on age, […]
Campaigners have hailed the passing of bill giving 16-year-olds the vote in Senedd elections as a ‘historic moment for democracy in Wales’. The Senedd and Elections (Wales) Bill will deliver the biggest boost to the franchise in Wales in half a century, the Electoral Reform Society said. Members of the […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home Following an ITV Wales investigation, it was revealed earlier today that the Health Minister, Vaughan Gething (Lab, Cardiff S. & Penarth), approved Cwm Taf health board’s medium-term care plan days before a damning report on the state of maternity services in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil was published. A few […]
Ben Lake, Plaid Cymru Parliamentary Candidate for Ceredigion The fight for 1950s women’s pensions was one of the first things I raised in parliament after I was elected and it continues to be a campaign I feel very passionate about. Thousands of women born in 1950s have been served a […]
Channel 4 have extended an invitation for Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price to take part in their Thursday night debate focusing on the climate crisis. The hour-long Emergency On Planet Earth debate on Channel 4 will take place on Thursday at 7pm. Initially, only Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Scottish […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home First Minister’s questions Nearly all of this afternoon’s unannounced questions to the First Minister revolved around Labour’s 2019 UK election manifesto. Leader of the Opposition, Paul Davies AM (Con, Preseli Pembs.) focused on tax. When the First Minister confirmed that the Welsh Government won’t raise the rate […]
A YouGov poll published today suggests that the Labour party are bouncing back in Wales with a projected six percentage point lead over the Conservative party. Wales is key to Boris Johnson’s path to a majority at the 12 December General Election but the poll projects that he is only […]
The Conservatives have promised to upgrade the A55 as part of their UK-wide manifesto, launched today by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A number of seats in the north-east of Wales, such as Delyn, Alyn and Deeside and the Vale of Clwyd, are key to his bid to win a majority […]
