At the Welsh Labour Spring Conference next week, the results of the Welsh Labour deputy leadership election will be announced. The first ever election for the new position is being fought between Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris and Cardiff North AM Julie Morgan. A lot of the talk surrounding the election has been over the Read more
He may have been dead for over 100 years but suddenly Karl Marx has become an issue in this election. Within all the General Election coverage, John McDonnell has suddenly got people talking about Karl Marx. On the Andrew Marr Show, McDonnell was asked about a previous comment where he described himself as a Marxist. Read more
The issue of measuring the political knowledge of voters is one that can be traced to the origins of modern political science. Without the ability to measure public opinion on a large scale, academics of the past worried that the electorate were apathetic and uninformed about government. Although modern public opinion measurement has improved at Read more
As John McDonnell calls for a ‘radical federal UK’ in order to strengthen Labour’s position in Scotland, Nye Davies explores the implications for Wales and the tensions arising from different strands of the party. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has called for a “radical federal” UK in a recent interview with The Herald, marking a change Read more
Nye Davies examines calls for the Welsh Labour Party to become more autonomous in the wake of the Labour Leadership Election. In 2002 Rhodri Morgan made his famous ‘Clear Red Water’ speech, outlining the different path that Labour was to take in Wales compared with the Labour Party at Westminster. He argued that a different Read more
