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Wales to roll back 20mph speed limit on some roads after backlash

Ken Skates said in many areas ‘routes that shouldn’t have been included, were’.

Evening Standard · Apr 20, 2024

Who is Vaughan Gething, the new Welsh Labour leader?

The first Black leader of a European nation has made history more than once during a rocky political career to date

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2024

Vaughan Gething to become Welsh first minister after Labour leadership win

Gething, 50, will become the first Black leader of a European country when he is confirmed as first minister next week

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2024

‘People should feel they belong’: Jeremy Miles reveals inclusive vision for Wales

Welsh Labour leadership contender says his sexuality made him feel on the outside and Thatcher’s attack on the miners led to his political awakening

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2024

No minutes kept of Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘gold command’ meetings, Covid inquiry told

Scotland’s former first minister excluded finance secretary from meetings in 2020, inquiry also hears

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Wales has been brave enough to completely rethink the hated council tax. Take note, England

The Senedd’s plan to shift the burden of this levy away from those on lower incomes shows how real levelling up can work, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Drivers caught in 20mph zone won’t have to pay if they are ‘genuinely confused’

Wales is the first country in the UK to drop the default speed limit from 30mph to 20mph

The Independent UK · Jan 8, 2024

Can an app decide if a language lives or dies? Not if Welsh speakers have anything to do with it

Duolingo is ‘pausing’ its Welsh course despite high demand – we need robust forms of learning that aren’t driven by profit, says writer and documentary-maker Gwenno Robinson

The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2023

Mark Drakeford: ‘I hope people will see we did challenging and radical things’

Outgoing Welsh first minister reflects on his achievements before stepping down in spring

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2023

Outgoing Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford slams House of Lords: 'I don't want to become a peer'

The Welsh Labour leader criticised the unelected Upper House of Parliament as a 'democratic anachronism'

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2023