The Latest Breaking News from Senedd

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

Vaughan Gething or Jeremy Miles to make history as Welsh Labour’s new leader

Outcome of election paves way for first black head of a European country or the UK’s most senior gay leader

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024

Farmers stage mass protest outside Welsh parliament over climate policies

Thousands take part in demonstration as concerns grow that groups denying climate crisis are seeking to exploit campaign

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 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

S4C chair tells UK government he will not stand for second term

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024

Striking junior doctors in Wales accuse Labour of driving medics out of NHS

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024

Welsh politicians ‘astonished’ at culture secretary’s absence during S4C bullying scandal

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 11, 2024

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

Vaughan Gething: Labour’s resilient optimist – and Wales’s next first minister?

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2023

Mark Drakeford: what the resignation of Wales' first minister means for the country and the Labour party

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…

The Conversation · Dec 15, 2023