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The 2026 Senedd Election Simulator: One Year to Go

The 2026 Senedd Election Simulator: One Year to Go

Posted on 7 May 2025 by Jac Larner

This time next year, Wales holds its seventh devolved election – one that will be different from all previous contests. This election will be the first to use a new […]

Finance, Uncategorized

Spring Statement 2025 – the implications for Wales

Posted on 27 March 2025 by Guto Ifan

By Guto Ifan, Owain Roberts and Ed Gareth Poole With dark economic clouds gathering, the Chancellor decided to cut spending to meet her ‘iron-clad’ fiscal rules. This blog looks at […]

Assisted Dying: No such Bill could be introduced in Senedd Cymru, or maybe it could?

Posted on 18 February 2025 by Wales Governance Centre

Emyr Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University, gave evidence to the legislation committee about Wales-specific aspects of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in their last […]

History, National Assembly, Plaid Cymru

Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Wales’s Political Nonconformist

Posted on 10 February 2025 by Wales Governance Centre

Dafydd Elis Thomas was a remarkable person and a unique politician and I'm not sure we'll see a politician like him again, but I really hope we do as it'll mean that his vision of a different Wales has been realised.

Making sense of the Welsh Government’s Draft Budget for 2025-26

Making sense of the Welsh Government’s Draft Budget for 2025-26

Posted on 11 December 2024 by Guto Ifan

Following Rachel Reeves’ decisions on taxation, spending and borrowing, this was always going to be a “big” budget. The Welsh Government had significantly more funding to allocate than was expected […]

Autumn Reeves: The 2024 Labour budget and its implications for Wales

Autumn Reeves: The 2024 Labour budget and its implications for Wales

Posted on 31 October 2024 by Guto Ifan

Ed Gareth Poole and Guto Ifan, Wales Fiscal Analysis Following an election in which both main parties largely ignored the reality facing the UK’s public finances, yesterday’s budget provided […]

Book Release: The Political Thought of Aneurin Bevan

Book Release: The Political Thought of Aneurin Bevan

Posted on 16 September 2024 by Nye Davies

Aneurin Bevan is one of the most widely quoted politicians in the UK. A powerful orator and engaging writer, Bevan’s most recognised one-liners have been printed on a variety of […]

The Welsh Electoral Pendulum: The Multilevel Voter and Switching between Westminster and Senedd Elections

The Welsh Electoral Pendulum: The Multilevel Voter and Switching between Westminster and Senedd Elections

Posted on 28 July 2024 by Jac Larner

The 2026 Senedd election will mark a new era of devolution in Wales, with an expanded Senedd and a new electoral system unlocking new dynamics of party competition. In this […]

Stark choices await the Welsh Budget – whichever party wins the UK General Election

Stark choices await the Welsh Budget – whichever party wins the UK General Election

Posted on 26 June 2024 by Guto Ifan

Wales Fiscal Analysis briefing on the implications of the 2024 General Election manifestos for the Welsh Government budget As the General Election campaign reaches its final stages, the major UK […]

Health by a thousand cuts? An initial analysis of the Welsh Government Draft Budget

Health by a thousand cuts? An initial analysis of the Welsh Government Draft Budget

Posted on 20 December 2023 by Guto Ifan

On 19 October, the Welsh Government published its Draft Budget for 2024-25. It had additional funding to allocate - but the budget had been significantly eroded by higher-than-expected inflation, with […]

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