Blog changes

If you’re following this blog, you’ll have to change your bookmarks, subscriptions or RSS feeds I’m afraid, because I won’t be blogging on this site any longer. Most of what I post here is also published on the main ITV Wales blog. When I joined ITV Wales we felt that I could use this site [...]

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Election XVII – Meanwhile…

Uncertainty is the only certainty on this last day of election campaigning before voting gets under way tomorrow morning. That uncertainty may be interesting for people like me and nerve-wracking for politicians, but it’s the civil service for whom it causes a real challenge. They have to be ready to swing into action to deliver [...]

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Election XVI – ITV Wales leaders’ debate

I’m going to disappoint you by not declaring a winner in last night’s Wales Decides Leaders’ Debate on ITV1 Wales. I think each of the four leaders gave a good account of him or herself at the Coal Exchange. Perhaps more importantly I don’t think there were any losers. I say importantly because I reckon [...]

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Election II – Meet the Team

Here’s a handsome crowd – the ITV Wales team for this year’s election coverage on ITV Wales and S4C. It was a feat in itself to get us all in the same place at the same time. We felt it was like a shot from Hustle but Jonathan refused to be cast as the Robert [...]

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Election I

The stakes are high in this election for all four of the main political parties.  To recap: For Labour, the prospect of governing Wales alone – tantalisingly within its grasp but with so many circumstances which could rob it of that cherished prize at the last minute. For Plaid Cymru, the answer to the question [...]

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Wales Decides 2011: Face to Face

No Sharp End tonight or for the duration of the election campaign, but in its place is the first of four special programmes. The idea behind Wales Decides 2011: Face to Face is simple: to get to know the four party leaders who will spend the next month trying to win your vote. What motivates [...]

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Sharp End 24th March

Tonight’s Sharp End is the last one until after May’s Assembly Election. Next week we start a series of in-depth interviews with the party leaders called Wales Decides 2011: Face to Face.  First up is Kirsty Williams, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. In subsequent weeks, she’ll be followed by the Conservatives’ Nick Bourne, [...]

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Sharp End 17/03/11

For tonight’s Sharp End, I’ve interviewed the Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain about Labour’s Assembly election hopes. First though I wanted to know about his relationship with the First Minister, Carwyn Jones. You may remember from last week the behind-the-scenes row over Mr Hain’s criticism of the Deputy First Minister, Plaid Cymru’s Ieuan Wyn Jones. [...]

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Video: YouGov poll & the US Ambassador.

Our latest YouGov poll has been published today. Details here and you my Wales Tonight report here . My interview with the US Ambassador is here if you don’t want to wait for tonight’s Sharp End.

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Sharp End

Sharp End is back tonight at 1035pm ITV1 Wales and there’s more than enough to talk about. Now that the referendum campaign is over, fragile cross-party consensus in Welsh politics is beginning to break down. Senior Labour figures are attacking the Plaid Cymru ministers who share government with fellow Labour politicians in Cardiff Bay and [...]

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