A Labour leadership contender and member of the shadow cabinet has called for Welsh Labour to be autonomous from the Labour party in England and Scotland. Norwich South MP Clive Lewis also said that the UK should be a federal state with the “maximum possible” autonomy for its constituent nations. […]
The Conservatives have called on the Welsh Government to set up a fund to support regeneration in market and seaside towns. Five of the 10 most deprived areas in Wales are located within towns, including Rhyl, Merthyr Tydfil and Wrexham, they said. The Conservatives won the constituencies of Wrexham and […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home Here’s a summary of this afternoon’s questions to the Finance Minister, Rebecca Evans (Lab, Gower). Criticising UK Government feet-dragging on publication of their own budget – now not due until March 11th – Rhun ap Iorwerth AM (Plaid, Ynys Môn) turned his attention to the draft Welsh […]
Almost everyone in Wales will be able to speak Welsh within the next 300 years and half the population will be proficient by 2200. That’s according to scientists from New Zealand who have been modelling how vulnerable languages are to extinction and say Welsh is in no danger of dying […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home First Minister’s Questions Is Transport for Wales on track? With several issues affecting rail services in Wales and the Border over the last few weeks, Leader of the Opposition, Paul Davies AM (Con, Preseli Pembs.), used the first FMQs of the new year to hold the […]
Broadcaster Huw Edwards has taken to Twitter to criticise the Anglicisation of Welsh place and building names. He was responding to a tweet by former Plaid Cymru parliamentary candidate Vaughan Williams who described the renaming of Welsh houses and place names as “linguistic cleansing”. “It’s been going on for years,” […]
A leaked report describes as “not yet final” suggests Welsh Ministers will be found guilty of breaking the rules by failing to provide Welsh language services on a train franchise they took over fifteen months ago. Transport for Wales (TfW), which is owned by the Welsh Government, breached nine language […]
Former Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has been named on the 2020 New Year’s Honours’ List. He has been made a CBE “in recognition of his political and public service over many years,” the Welsh Conservatives said. He said that to have been included in The Queen’s New Year […]
Some of Wales’ biggest councils – including Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire – are missing out on millions of pounds a year by failing to use powers to raise council tax on second homes, research has revealed. Since a change to the law in 2014, councils have had the […]
The Queen’s Speech has been criticised after it did not mention Wales at all. However, the Welsh Conservative Party welcomed what they called “an ambitious plan for the whole United Kingdom”. The party’s Welsh leader Paul Davies AM said that Boris Johnson had “stuck to his guns” and was delivering […]
