Welsh Conservative leadership contest gets underway.

There seem to have been a lot of false starts in Welsh politics recently, amongst them the contest to replace Nick Bourne as leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Assembly. After an initial flurry when the party’s Assembly Members negotiated agreements and disagreements to come up with a final two, today looks more like [...]

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It takes two – Welsh Conservative leadership latest

‘No deals,’ Andrew RT Davies insisted when I asked him. ‘I don’t believe in deals.’ And when I put the same question to Darren Millar he used almost identical language, saying ‘There have been no deals with Andrew RT Davies about jobs or anything like that in the future.’ The deal or no deal question [...]

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Sharp End

With just two weeks to go until we vote in the Assembly powers referendum, I thought I’d heard pretty much all the views on both sides of the debate. Until today. I’ve been chairing a debate in the old Assembly chamber for A-level politics students from across Wales and what a range of strong opinions [...]

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