The Labour Party have been criticised for promising to spend an extra £100bn on Scotland in their manifesto, but only £3.4 billion on Wales. The manifesto, It’s Time for Real Change, says that they will “provide Scotland with at least around £100 billion of additional resources over two terms”. “This […]
Plaid Cymru have announced that they would invest in the building of railways across Wales if they were in power, as they launch their manifesto today. The manifesto promises the creation of a trans-Wales railway and a Cross-rail for the Valleys. The manifesto also includes a commitment to building a […]
Image by Mabel Amber, still incognito… from Pixabay Owen Donovan, Senedd Home The Motion The Senedd: Notes the Cross Party Group on Hospices and Palliative Care’s report on Inequalities in Access to Hospice and Palliative Care. Acknowledges that approximately 23,000 people in Wales have a palliative care need at any one […]
The west of Wales, the valleys and parts of Cardiff, Newport and Swansea are some of the least Royalist areas in the UK, according to a new poll by Focaldata. The poll commissioned by UnHerd shows support for the Royal Family dipping under half of the respondents in constituencies across […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home Here’s a round-up of this afternoon’s questions to the Finance Minister, Rebecca Evans (Lab, Gower). Did the Welsh Government act as window dressing for Northern Powerhouse Developments? Mark Reckless AM (BXP, South Wales East) asked about the Welsh Government’s relations to the controversial developer, Gavin Woodhouse, who’s been […]
A 19th-century Aberystwyth newspaper was resurrected as a fake news site, according to a non-governmental organisation that uncovers attempts at spreading disinformation. Aberystwyth Times was one of over 265 fake local news sites in more than 65 countries identified by EU DisinfoLab. The NGO said it was part of a […]
A candidate for the Welsh nationalist party Gwlad Gwlad in the Vale of Glamorgan stood three times as a candidate for a party that wanted a referendum on Monmouthshire being part of England. Laurence Williams stood for the English Democrats party at the Erith and Thamesmead in the 2010 General […]
Wales was not mentioned once during ITV’s Jeremy Corbyn v Boris Johnson leader’s debate. Brexit, the NHS and Prince Andrew were among the topics discussed as the leaders of the Conservative and Labour parties faced off, but Wales did not garner a single mention. Scotland was discussed however and the […]
Owen Donovan, Senedd Home First Minister’s Questions Health Minister, Vaughan Gething (Lab, Cardiff S. & Penarth), was filling in for the First Minister today due to illness. I assume the opposition changed their plans at the last minute too because all of their questions without notice had a health theme. Minister […]
Democracy in England is looking “glaringly behind the times” compared to Wales, according to the Electoral Reform Society. New legislation published today by the Welsh Government will pave the way for votes at 16 at local elections in Wales. It will also allow councils to switch from a first-past-the-post voting […]
