Ifan Morgan Jones Who will win the Newport West by-election? Probably Labour’s Ruth Jones. There is a tendency for political journalists to attempt to create a sense of drama and horse race around elections, but perhaps there is enough political drama around already. If Labour don’t win the Newport it […]
Jonathan Clark, Plaid Cymru candidate for Newport West It’s time for Newport to be radical again. That’s my call as the Plaid Cymru candidate for the Newport West Westminster by-election. Newport is Wales’ third largest urban area but being sandwiched in between Cardiff and Bristol has seen its economy continually […]
Keith Darlington “Politics is broken”, according to the recently formed Independent Group in Westminster. If public engagement is anything to go by (only 45.3% voted in the last Assembly elections) then the same can be said of Welsh politics. In this article, I argue that we need a new way […]
Patrick McGuinness April Fools’ Day came early this weekend, when Carwyn Jones, a former first minister, took to Twitter to compare the ultra-nationalists of Brexit, with their cries of ‘Traitor’ and their abuse of police, journalists, and anyone who might look or speak ‘foreign’, with Welsh nationalists. ‘Or, to use […]
Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru MP Two years ago, a few days before the vote to begin the Article 50 process, I warned that triggering it without a plan would go down in history as one of the most devastating acts of negligence since the Charge of the Light Brigade. The vanity […]
Liz Saville Roberts, Leader of the Plaid Cymru Westminster Group Another week, another Brexit motion. Once again, however, this latest Brexit vote was neither the vote we need, nor the vote we deserve. Devoid of the numbers required to win, unwilling to provide the certainty people and businesses require, absent of […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Leave or Remain, no one is at all impressed with the current uber-shambles at Westminster. Just 7% of UK voters think the Government have done a good job of handling the Brexit negotiations. And that was before Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement failed again today to pass the […]
Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for Economy and Finance Welsh Government recently announced its Low Carbon Action Plan, outlining a commitment to tackling climate change. I welcome the report as a step in the right direction, but experience tells us that words in themselves don’t clean up our […]
Phil Jones If you’re used to flying from English provincial airports, taking a trip from Cardiff Airport is quite a strange experience. The lack of flights and a general absence of hustle and bustle that one experiences elsewhere is immediately apparent. Indeed, compared to almost nine million passengers that used […]
Ifan Morgan Jones This weekend we stand at perhaps the most unstable time in UK politics in most people’s memories. By the end of the week, we have no idea who the UK’s Prime Minister will be, and whether we will be crashing out of the EU, staying in indefinitely, […]
