The Latest Breaking News from Senedd

Economy minister says he is best candidate for top job and Senedd ‘needs to do more to look like our country’

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 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

Rhodri Williams had told MPs he wanted to keep job last week amid fallout from bullying scandal at broadcaster

Hundreds of doctors protest on steps of Welsh parliament over government’s refusal to increase pay offer

‘Wholly unacceptable’ Lucy Frazer did not meet leaders of Welsh broadcaster despite repeated requests

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

The Welsh minister for the economy is making the early running in the leadership contest, looking well placed to work closely with both Starmer and unions

This week, Mark Drakeford announced his resignation as Wales’ first minister after five years as leader. Back in 2018, Drakeford built his leadership bid on a platform of “21st-century socialism”. As the manifesto reveals, the mantra was rooted in the ideas of “the radical tradition of Welsh socialism”, which would…

Wales’s departing first minister won admiration in the crisis but problems in health and education blighted his record

The 69-year-old has been Wales' leader since December 2018