Election 2011 – Where now?

The dust is beginning to settle, the politicians are rested and refreshed and this is the week in which decisions will be taken which will have long-term consequences for Welsh politics. I expect to see some movement by the end of Monday from Carwyn Jones about how he intends to deal the hand he’s been [...]

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Labour’s Llandudno launchpad.

I’m writing this as I sit in the bay window of my hotel in Llandudno. I’m here for Welsh Labour’s annual conference which it’s fair to say is an important one for the party at a UK level as well as here in Wales. As a sign of just how important, UK leader, Ed Miliband, [...]

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GPs and the Tour de France: Election Time is already here.

Labour’s pledge to make it easier for working people to get to see their GPs in the evenings and at weekends means that all four parties have now given us flavours of what they’ll be promising us in the Assembly election which is looming ever closer. It may not be very popular with GPs but Labour [...]

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Sharp End

As we count down to next month’s referendum on changing the Assembly’s powers, we wanted to get a bit of context about the powers that Cardiff Bay already has and how they might change if there’s a yes vote on March 3rd. Of course, Wales isn’t the only devolved part of the UK so I’ve [...]

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Labour prophet of doom 2005

I’m reading the second volume of Chris Mullin’s diaries. Like the first it contains a lot of nuggets, personal and political. Like this extremely accurate prediction recorded more than five years ago on Monday 21st November 2005. Mullins is talking to ‘a Yorkshire MP’ who he quotes as saying: ‘I think we will lose the [...]

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Are Welsh Lib Dems more in tune with their party than Nick Clegg?

Following on from my previous post about where the tuition fees row leaves the Welsh Liberal Democrats in relation to their party’s leadership, it’s worth highlighting a flurry of comments and articles that may shed a little more light on what could be going on inside the party. In today’s Observer, the former director of [...]

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