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10 months

1/2 Following Rishi Sunak’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg, a Welsh Government spokesperson has said “It is profoundly disappointing the prime minister is inadvertently or intentionally, choosing to mislead people about the introduction of 20mph.

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1/12 I really don’t go in for media moaning: I’m of the view that we have to agree to follow most rules for security and timetable reasons - but I should make the following clear about the Boris Johnson visit to a farm here in Wales:

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The Labour First Minister of Wales has invited the leaders of Plaid Cymru and the Conservatives to join his cabinet covid group. They've both accepted.

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“The U.K. Government plans to sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from the devolved administrations.’ - Wales’ Counsel General Jeremy Miles angrily attacks the Internal Market Bill

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2 years

Ynys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie has resigned as PPS to the Wales Office.

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12/12 We’ll get over it. We’ll find other ways of reporting such visits. I don’t want special pleading. But change is change and I thought it ought to be made public.

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No change in Wales' lockdown slogan which remains 'Stay Home, Save Lives.' Welsh Government emphasises that 'Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives' is and England slogan NOT a UK-wide.

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2/2 “It is not a blanket restriction. Speed limits on a great number of roads in Wales are unchanged and journey times take around a minute longer. This will save lives and make our communities safer.”

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4 years

1/3 In other news the Welsh Government is threatening to take the UK Government to court over the UK Internal Market Bill despite concessions made last night. Counsel General Jeremy Miles says

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9 months

The Plaid Cymru motion has been passed 24 votes to 19 against and 13 abstentions. Applause in the public gallery. It means the Senedd has voted to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.

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Paul Davies has resigned as welsh conservative leader in the senedd.

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7/12 For the record then: on the Prime Minister’s first visit to Wales the national news outlets of Wales @ITVWales @BBCWalesNews and @WalesOnline weren’t allowed interviews. We were offered chance to ask questions but not to film them.

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11/12 I do think it’s a strange way to begin for a new Prime Minister who says he wants to strengthen the union to treat the main national news outlets this way.

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The Prime Minister has announced an extra £1bn of military aid for Ukraine. £95m of it comes from Welsh and Scottish Government budgets. Welsh finance minister says it backs helping Ukraine but it's "not right" to use devolved money to fund non-devolved spending.

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The Prince of Wales is at the Senedd in Cardiff meeting political leaders and members of the Welsh Youth Parliament in a low key second visit described as a chance for him to deepen his understanding of the issues and opportunities of greatest importance to the Welsh people.

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3 years

This is a double Henry situation. Repeat, a double Henry situation.

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5 years

‘Unworthy and dangerous’ says @GutoAberconwy about Theresa May’s statement blaming MPs for Brexit impasse. ‘Our inboxes are hate filled. She knows MPs are receiving death threats so yes, contemptible. It’s an utter failure of judgement on her behalf.’

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‘Donald Trump tribute act’ - Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner on the return of Andrew RT Davies as Welsh Conservative leader.

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Sources in parliament have heard there could be up to five Tory MPs ready to defect if the Lib Dems win tonight.

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7 months

Mark Drakeford has written to Rishi Sunak asking for an urgent call to discuss Tata. According to the First Minister's Official spokesman, Number Ten has told them that the Prime Minister is not available to take a call today.

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1/3 Some personal news: After 350 programmes and nearly ten years, I've decided to step away from presenting Sharp End & give someone else a chance to take the hot seat. I'm not going away - from now on I hope to focus my efforts on daily political news coverage for @ITVWales

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10 years

For journalism students everywhere. Today’s @southwalesargus front page. http://t.co/Xb9PDIcQjd

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Take a deep breath. A really deep breath. Here are the European election figures from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll + analysis from @roger_scully Poll puts Brexit Party on course for European election triumph in Wales

Poll puts Brexit Party on course for European election triumph in Wales | ITV News

An ITV Wales poll puts the Brexit party well ahead in the European election, Plaid Cymru are second and the Conservatives in sixth place. | ITV News Wales

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The Welsh Government has no plans to end its daily press conferences.

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8/12 Also for the record, I refused this offer. I hate to have turned down the chance to challenge Boris Johnson but I wouldn’t have been able to broadcast any of it. I’d have had to read quotes to the audience tonight.

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10 months

Rishi Sunak tells me that Wales’ 20mph policy does not reflect “the right values of the British people.”

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@adrianmasters84 Spoke with Rishi Sunak ahead of the Conservative Party's annual conference.

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1/2 First Minister Mark Drakeford has told @TimesRadio that the publication of the Internal Market Bill is 'a grim day.' 'This bill represents an enormous power grab, taking powers that have been in Wales, Scotland & N.Ireland since the very beginning of devolution, for 20 years.

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1/3 First Minister Mark Drakeford and Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price have set out proposals to increase the number of Senedd members from 60 to 96 and change the way they're elected by the next election in 2026.

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10/12 It’s also up to number 10 what they offer us. I have no quarrel with that but I reserve the right to report under which conditions we’ve covered the visit

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The former Lib Dem AM @WmPowell2016 who’s been very ill with coronavirus is now out of intensive care. I’m told he’s still weak but breathing unaided.

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Plaid Cymru spokesperson on the meeting with the Prince of Wales in the Senedd today.

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‘Liz Truss has her fingerprints all over the crime scene of the past 12 years of Tory failure’ says Labour shadow welsh secretary Jo Stevens

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A senior and well respected Welsh Conservative has resigned from the Senedd shadow cabinet over the UK Internal Market Bill. Details coming shortly

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U.K. Govt offers to take Welsh non-covid patients at English hospitals to ease the pressure on hospitals here. Letter to the First Minister from Simon Hart and Matt Hancock.

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Exam results crisis Wales: Welsh Education Minister announces that A levels and GCSEs will now be based on teachers' assessed grades

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Important Lockdown Wales latest. The Welsh cabinet meeting to review the lockdown restrictions here has finished. I understand that welsh ministers are taking an incredibly cautious approach and will not risk R rate escalating.

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Vaughan Gething is stepping down as Welsh Labour leader and First Minister.

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Mick Antoniw, Julie James, Lesley Griffiths and Jeremy Miles have just resigned from the Welsh Government

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5 years

1/4 Brecon and Radnorshire by-election: the Green Party has decided not to put up a candidate. This could see the beginning of a 'remain' parties pact.

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5 years

A Plaid Cymru source says the big thing for them tonight is beating Labour who’ve only lost one election in Wales since 1918. They say the Brexit party vote may disappear in the years to come, bur breaking the habit of Labour voters will be a major step for Plaid.

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Joint statement from opposition leaders Liz Saville Roberts, Ian Blackford, Vince Cable and Caroline Lucas as they go into their meeting with Theresa May.

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3 years

The First Ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have written a joint letter to Boris Johnson urging him to reverse the decision to end the universal credit uplift.

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6 years

25 years ago today I started work in the newsroom at Red Dragon. The medium and the technology may have changed (no typewriters or tape now) but I’m still enjoying asking impertinent questions for a living.

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Former Welsh Secretary @SCrabbPembs tells MPs that as a non-Welsh speaker he sees the language is one of the main glories of Wales; tells those who moan about bilingual road signs to ‘get over it’

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Welsh and Scottish ministers have pulled out of a meeting with Michael Gove after they say he 'pre-empted any discussion' of a possible extension to the Brexit transition period. Details to follow.

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6 years

I asked @Lin_Manuel what brought him to @cardiffbookfest & he said ‘because I like books’ #CardiffBookFest

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What a day ⁦ @cardiffbookfest ⁩. ⁦ @nikeshshukla ⁩ had a brilliant event and ⁦ @Lin_Manuel ⁩ surprised us by coming along to hear it.

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7 years

Woah! Plaid Cymru sources say Ceredigion is now a four-way fight. 'Labour and the Tories have come from nowhere.'

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4 years

Normally welsh Govt press conferences are only attended by Cardiff-based political journalists like me. Now there are remote questions from London-based networks and others such as @llanellionline @wrexham . I hope we can keep that going when this is over.

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1/2 A number of Welsh Conservative activists have contacted me to say they think Paul Davies and Darren Millar should step down. ‘Their positions are untenable’ said one.

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5 years

Here’s number 10’s official record of what the Prime Minister said to the 1922 committee tonight

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2 years

Welsh Lib Dem leader Jane Dodds predicts that ‘under Liz Truss we are set to see more of the chaos that we saw under Boris Johnson’

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5 years

The crucial town of Ystradgynlais seems to have gone to the Lib Dems. 'We've lost Ystradgynlais,' says one Tory. 'That's us done.'

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1/2 Coronavirus: It's understood that the Welsh Government will shortly announce that caravan parks, campsites, tourist hotspots and popular beauty spots will be closed to visitors from today.

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A Welsh Conservative supporter of Boris Johnson tells me that, after he failed to back the British ambassador last night, ‘I now bitterly regret voting for Boris over his reaction to Sir Kim Darroch. Wish I could ask for my ballot back’

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9/12Also for the record: these visits are often tricky for the press officers trying to arrange them. I don’t blame them. Decisions are made elsewhere.

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2/12 We ( @ITVWales ) were invited along with @BBCWalesNews @WalesOnline and other Welsh media to cover the event.

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6 years

In the Commons, the Speaker John Bercow has upheld @JonathanPlaid complaint about Conservative MPs mocking his accent. Speaker says 'it is wrong ... and it constitutes a form of bullying.'

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5/12 So I’m invited to ask a question but can’t record it on camera and so can’t include it in my report on tonight’s @ITVWales news.

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1/7 Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price is calling on the Welsh Government to use emergency legislation to implement a film travel ban into Wales without an official reason ahead of the Easter weekend.

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4 years

Staying on as leader won't be easy for Paul Davies. He faces continued anger from Welsh Conservative activists, a standards investigation, a possible police investigation and questions about this incident every time he speaks about any other topic.

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I like Twitter when it helps and I’d like to help in my own small way. I don’t have millions of followers but I do have a few. Any business still operating but differently, eg restaurant turned food delivery or shop turned into mail order, let me know and I’ll retweet.

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3 years

Covid passes: Conservative MS Darren Millar could be heard claiming a member was unable to join by zoom to vote remotely. The proposal was passed by one vote.

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This isn’t perfect and I’m sure will develop but making this virtual meeting of the National Assembly happen at all and with simultaneous translation too is quite an achievement by those behind the scenes. I’m enjoying spying on tea cups and home decor too @ElinCeredigion

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3/12 As usual there’s a ‘pool’ arrangement whereby a UK network camera filmed the visit and a UK network journalist asked ‘pool’ questions to be shared by everyone. In this case it fell to colleagues from @itvnews . So far so usual.

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4/12 We as Welsh media were invited to ask questions as part of a ‘huddle’ but on arrival it turned out we wouldn’t be allowed to film it.

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The Monster Raving Loonies have arrived. @ladylillythepink

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Mark Drakeford says he’s speaking to Nicola Sturgeon again this afternoon. He says he thinks Wales and Scotland are ‘in the same place’ in their approaches to coronavirus

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1/2 Plaid Cymru Senedd Member Rhun ap Iorwerth confirms rumours that he'll put his name forward to contest Ynys Môn in the next UK General Election, whenever that comes.

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Liz Truss will be the last Prime Minister of the U.K. predict Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price and Liz Saville Roberts.

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3 years

Aberconwy could be one of the stories of this election. I'm told sampling suggests Aaron Wynne will take it for Plaid Cymru from the Conservatives.

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5 years

Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay has written to Wales’ Brexit minister Jeremy Miles to say that the UK Govt will press ahead with the withdrawal bill despite an expected refusal to grant consent in the Assembly tomorrow.

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First Minister of Wales takes angry swipe at UK Govt over changes to quarantine rules for air passengers. “It has been an experience of dealing with a government that appears incapable of making up its own mind let alone communicating with devolved administrations’

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6 years

Senior Tory on PM’s speech extract referring to Welsh devolution referendum: ‘Who the hell cleared that Wales line?’

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So sad to have had to write this tribute to my friend Nick Powell. He was one of the most significant journalists in Welsh politics, spanning the pre- and post-devolution eras. Conversations with him over a pint ranged far and wide. I’ll miss him very much.

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We are deeply sad to hear about Nick’s sudden passing. Having joined HTV Wales in 1988,he played an instrumental role in shaping our political coverage since the early days of devolution. A friend & colleague to so many of us, he'll be very much missed.

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The Welsh Government is now officially a Remain government. No more ‘ifs’ - this from a statement by @wg_CounselGen is the furthest I’ve heard a Welsh Minister go: ‘as a Government we will now campaign to remain in the EU.’

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6/12 The clip in my report therefore will be a ‘pool’ clip, collected by colleagues at ITV network and shared.

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First Minister Mark Drakeford urges Boris Johnson to talk to the devolved governments: ‘in this most difficult week, there has been no meeting offered to First Ministers of any sort. Since the 28th May, there has been just one brief telephone call from the Prime Minister.’

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Plaid Cymru responds to the Prime Minister’s M4 comments. This is from @DelythJewellAM

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Summit is off. FMs and PM were due to meet tomorrow. Not now. No reason given.

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Mark Drakeford & Nicola Sturgeon have jointly written to Boris Johnson ahead of Thursday’s covid recovery summit that he promised following their successful re-elections. Among other things they call for clarity on the agenda, saying they’ve so far only had a rough outline

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Welsh Conservatives are telling me about an initial mixup at a party leadership event in Monmouthshire earlier. They say Liz Truss referred to the Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies as Andrew TC Davies confusing him with the area’s MP.

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Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth: “The next leader of the Labour party in Wales was always likely to be a Minister who has overseen the decline in either health outcomes or educational standards.

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‘The real story of the Wales result is actually that Wales has now become Remain - even if you don’t include Labour (which I do)’ - @SDoughtyMP

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Now read it for yourself. Here’s the letter Mark Drakeford has sent to Boris Johnson calling for a travel ban to Wales from high risk areas of England

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3/3 ...that the ambit of constitutional legislation cannot lawfully be cut down in this way and that the ensuing Act cannot be interpreted so as to have that effect."

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1/3 Senedd member @RhunapIorwerth has been unanimously selected as Plaid Cymru's candidate to become the MP for Ynys Môn.

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4 years

This is the BSL signer from the welsh Government press conferences! I can only apologise.

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@adrianmasters84 Do you know how long it took me to practise spelling Dexamethasone? And not a single mention of it from any of you!!!! 🤣

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This view this evening from the @ITVWales office overlooking the Senedd.

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Labour sources say Blaenau Gwent is looking 'miserable' for them.

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Jeremy Miles says 'This bill is an attack on democracy and an affront to the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, who have voted in favour of devolution on numerous occasions.'

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Responding to today’s child poverty figures Plaid Cymru leader @Adamprice , who’s in Westminster today, says ‘politics is failing the next generation’ and calls for Welsh Govt to hold emergency summit.

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Not everyone is so enamoured with Boris Johnson here in Cardiff. One member just left the hustings shaking his head and said to me, ‘he’s a clown.’

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Here’s the email sent to Plaid Cymru members explaining the decision not to stand in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and instead support the Lib Dem candidate.

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2/3 "We have therefore today formally notified the UK Government that should the UK Parliament enact the Bill in its present form, I intend to take immediate action to seek a declaration from the Administrative Court ...

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Welsh conservatives tell me that their conference dinner has been disrupted by anti Brexit protestor Steve Bray who managed to break into their function room. Police have been called.

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Snub for Welsh media on Boris Johnson's first visit to Wales as prime minister

Boris Johnson booed by protesters during visit to Wales | ITV News

Protesters gathered outside the Senedd building as the prime minister arrived in Cardiff Bay to meet with the First Minister. | ITV News Wales

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6 years

Voting for 16 and 17 year olds is on its way to Wales. The @AssemblyWales Commission says it will introduce legislation to lower the minimum voting for Welsh elections.

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2 years

At the launch of ⁦ @NickTorfaen ⁩ ‘s biography of Harold Wilson. He’s joined by Keir Starmer and Wilson’s son and daughter in law

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Voting is over now! @roger_scully and I will be joining @AndreaByrneTV for #walesdecides at 1045pm @ITVWales Seat projection and interviews from @LSRPlaid @huw4ogmore @Simonhartmp

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