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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Rhodri Morgan’s memoirs.

When I was chatting to the former First Minister Rhodri Morgan before tonight’s Sharp End, I asked him what his plans were after he retires from the Assembly in May. ‘Gardening, music and writing,’ he said. Will he be writing his memoirs? ‘I’ve already started doing that.’ I don’t know if he’s confirmed this previously; [...]

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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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Sharp End

It’s Thursday so it must be Sharp End.  A lot of tonight’s programme will be dedicated – just as a lot of the last political week has been – to education.  Three sets of statistics in a row have put what’s happening in our schools firmly in the spotlight in terms of individual performance, international [...]

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Sharp End and politics round-up

It’s a Sharp End day today so a lot of my time and attention is being taken up with that, but there are a couple of strands to pick up on briefly. Electrification of the London to Swansea rail line. * The Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has been at Swansea railway station today [...]

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Sharp End returns

Sharp End is back after its Christmas break to cast its beady eye over Welsh politics once again. It’s raining outside in Cardiff Bay so we’re all very glad to be warm and dry inside our Assembly office. What do we have for you tonight? Well the political year has begun with a blazing row [...]

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