Budget live blog

I think most of you who follow this blog also follow the ITV Wales blog and our twitter feeds, but I still should have mentioned earlier that updates from me and from my colleagues have been appearing here throughout the day and are continuing to appear. Follow my twitter feed   or the ITV Wales feed for [...]

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Budget preview

When he stands up to deliver his budget tomorrow (Wednesday), the Chancellor George Osborne will do so in very bleak circumstances. The military is engaged in a new conflict which will have to be paid for whilst at home, the latest figures show inflation is rising and borrowing higher than anticipated. All of which gives [...]

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Barnett’s Fair – for the foreseeable future

At Welsh Labour’s special policy conference which was held at the weekend, the party launched its own Yes campaign for next year’s powers referendum. One of the main messages used to win over doubters within Labour was that the UK government would only look at reforming the way Wales is funded – the notorious Barnett [...]

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Budget and Blaenau Gwent at the Sharp End

The dust is beginning to settle on yesterday’s draft budget from the Assembly Government, but a lot of that dust is still obscuring the details of spending cuts. In tonight’s Sharp End, we’ll try to sweep up some of that dust for you. I’ll be interviewing the First Minister Carwyn Jones and my guests in [...]

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Budget bits

I won’t even attempt to give you a comprehensive round-up of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Draft Budget: you can get that from Gareth Hughes here. Instead here are a few random notes and snippets from an intense day. * The fact that the Higher Education budget has been cut by nearly £37bn is surely a [...]

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Pre-budget politics

‘Apprehensive.’ That was the answer the Deputy Minister for Children, Huw Lewis, gave when I asked him how he was feeling ahead of the publication tomorrow of the Assembly Government’s draft budget. ‘Anyone who works in the public realm would be apprehensive about spending in the future,’ he added. I had been asking him about [...]

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