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Wales Articles

Fifty years on: What next for Wales?

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of a secretary of state for Wales. I am Welsh. I was born, raised and educated in Wales and my first job after university was working for a Welsh member of parliament. But I believe the settled will for...
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Majority government starts in west Wales

The delightful counties of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire contain four parliamentary seats, all of which have been Labour, which we need to win again if we are to have a good chance of achieving a majority government in 2015. Taken together these seats are perhaps...
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Leader of the opposition’s questions

After last week’s prime minister’s questions – widely hailed as a victory for Ed Miliband after he ambushed David Cameron with the revelation of his welfare minister’s despicable comments about disabled people – the pressure was on for the Labour leader to land...
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In Wales the Agricultural Wages Board lives on

Last year I devoted one of my regular Labour History articles to opposing the coalition government’s proposal to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales. Set up in 1948 by Labour cabinet minister Tom Williams, the Agricultural Wages Board had sought...
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