I have posted a new blog piece, summarising some of my thoughts about the possible future of UKIP in Wales, over at my personal website. You can find the new blog piece here. Read more
On Wednesday 18th July, the Wales Governance Centre held the latest in our periodic public briefing sessions about the state of play on Wales and Brexit. Chaired by Arwyn Jones of the BBC, and held in the Neuadd of the National Assembly’s Senedd building, the latest briefing session included three presentations – one by myself Read more
As many blog readers may just have noticed, the politics of party leadership have become highly topical in Wales in recent weeks. The four official parties in the National Assembly are all facing actual or potential leadership contests. Fortunately, the new Welsh Political Barometer poll was able to include some relevant questions. Most of our Read more
Although much political attention in Wales at the moment appears to be focussing on elections within parties, the Welsh Political Barometer poll has also continued to ask the public about levels of electoral support for the parties. With the troubles of Brexit looking ever larger, and internal difficulties facing all of our main political Read more
Well, it’s not dull is it? We now face the realistic prospect of there being simultaneous leadership elections running for all four parties in the National Assembly for Wales across the summer. To recap… Welsh Labour started things off, with the announcement by Carwyn Jones at the party’s Welsh conference in April that he would Read more
This is the third in a short series of blog posts about the impact of electoral systems on electoral and party politics in Wales, drawing on research for my forthcoming book on Elections in Wales. In a previous blog post looking at the impact of the First Past the Post and AMS electoral systems Read more
Just a brief blog post to up-date readers about what you can expect over the next few weeks on Elections in Wales. First, on Monday morning I will be publishing the third in my short series of blog posts looking at the recent electoral history of Wales and the impact of electoral systems on Read more
My two recent blog posts about the latest BBC/YouGov poll looked at evidence from that poll regarding attitudes to the devolved institutions and other levels of government, including views on which level of government should be responsible for a number of different policy areas. After posting the second of these pieces on the blog, I Read more
In my previous blog post I talked about some of the findings from the recent BBC/YouGov poll conducted in Wales (in parallel with other work on England and Scotland). In this post I will follow on from that by talking about some further evidence in the poll – specifically a series of questions that explored Read more
There has been a great deal of interest in the last week in a set of surveys conducted by the BBC with YouGov. Parallel surveys were run in England, Scotland and Wales in late-April/early-May. Mark Easton, the BBC’s excellent Home Affairs editor, discussed what much of the evidence gathered said about the state and nature Read more
