Reform Wales' Dan Thomas has told the BBC he would consider a donation from a criminal if it was his only option to pay for security - prompting scorn from some of his political rivals
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Welsh Labour to find new leader by November But we've learned of a split at the top of the party and an argument over when that timetable should take place www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Welsh Labour to have new leader by November but party split
BBC Wales is told the party's ruling body argued over how quickly the contest should take place.
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MP Steve Witherden has been accused by a constituent of stealing an idea to have unused ventilators released from a Welsh hospital. The constituent says he asked the MP for help for them to go to Ukraine, but found out the MP later asked if they could go to Cuba.
At the end of last night's BBC debate the contours of a potential alliance that could keep Reform out of government were apparent It's been obvious to Welsh political anoraks but maybe not the public - four parties ruled out working with reform, but not each other
Live Welsh political debate tonight on BBC 1 Wales - tune in! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Senedd election TV debate: Welsh Parliament parties face off in Wrexham
Politicians fighting for seats in the next Welsh Parliament are answering questions from an audience in Wrexham.
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The Senedd has passed legislation paving the way for a ban on lying in Welsh Parliament election campaigns (50 votes for, 1 against), and for a ban on greyhound racing. (39 for, 2 abstentions and 10 against)
On 18 February 2025 a Welsh government minister announced that his administration would ban greyhound racing. It came a day after officials, in a note signed off by the chief vet Richard Irvine, told him they hadn't gathered enough evidence to justify it
Mr Nobody Against Putin, which has won a Bafta tonight, is on iPlayer. Profound doc self shot by a Russian school teacher who filmed as his school was forced to inject propaganda into its classrooms www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kx2d
Storyville - Mr Nobody Against Putin
A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.
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#BBCNews - Lyse Doucet: In Tehran, rallies for Iran's revolution overshadowed by discontent and defiance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lyse Doucet: In Tehran, rallies for Iran's revolution overshadowed by discontent and defiance
The BBC visits the Iranian capital for the first time since authorities used unprecedented force to put down protests last month.
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Plaid have gained a seat on Pembrokeshire council via a council by-election in Fishguard North East. It had been won by Labour at the election in 2022
Focus in the Senedd & Welsh politics today will be on FMQs, where if the opposition doesn't challenge the FM on her stance on the UK Labour leadership I'd be very surprised. Starts at 1330.
Former Tory MS James Evans, in Senedd debate on NHS where Tories are calling for a health emergency to be declared, says he didn't know what that meant in the 12 months he was a health spokesman.
Get off Netflix and go to the pub if want to save them, Eluned Morgan told FMQs in the Senedd today, as she came under fire over business rates www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stop watching Netflix to save pubs, Welsh first minister Eluned Morgan says
Eluned Morgan said her government can't be expected
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Labour MS Alun Davies says there is no perfect time for the Senedd to vote on assisted dying, telling BBC Radio Wales that it might be too late to wait until the next term. He says the consequences of voting (like how assisted dying would happen in Wales) are still not known
Tories promising grandparents £4.8k to help with childcare in an election pledge announced today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Welsh Conservatives pledge grandparents £4,800 for childcare
Grandparents in Wales could get £4,800 a year to look after grandchildren if party wins Senedd election.
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What would you do if your home was destroyed? For many Ukrainians in Scotland, that's the situation they find themselves in. Amid peace deal talks, will they have a choice about staying or returning? Our latest story across BBC Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can Scotland's Ukrainian refugees ever go home?
With no progress in peace talks and Russia continuing to bomb Ukraine, refugees in Scotland look to the future.
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On national radio the first minister Eluned Morgan repeatedly refused to offer support to the prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, telling voters the May election is not a time for a protest vote against his government www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wales' first minister Eluned Morgan refuses to support Sir Keir Starmer
Eluned Morgan repeatedly refused to say if the prime minister is good at his job in a BBC interview.
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"I'm sure people are waiting with baited breath to read all parties manifestos - I particularly encourage that if you struggle with insomnia" - Sam Rowlands, who is the Welsh Tory policy director, on Radio Wales
Eluned Morgan took flack from all sides in the Senedd today over her speech calling for more devolution to stop pro-indy parties taking control of the Senedd
It was on Thursday that the first minister called again for policing to be devolved and on Monday that the home secretary rejected it
BBC: Leicestershire and Rutland's police and crime commissioner (PCC) is facing a complaint that he asked a police officer to help him organise an election campaign photo with a horse in reference to Vladimir Putin's famous topless photoshoot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hearing for PCC over 'Putin-style' horse photo request
Rupert Matthews has been accused of asking a police officer to set up a photoshoot with a horse.
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The only thing Reform have said about James Evans all day: Farage denying a tweet claiming he spoke to the now ex Tory MS tonight about joining the party. Begs the question what exactly is going on
On Monday, Conservative MS James Evans did something a bit odd. Eagle eyed viewers of his Facebook page noticed that, at 1.16pm, he removed the words "Welsh Conservatives" from a post attacking Labour and Plaid Cymru.
This is good fun. Choose your ABC (Australia) clock, tweak the interference, ghosting etc. You can even choose when to have the pips. @dirtyfeed.org @matt.cymru @aldupres.bsky.social mubd.net.au/tv-history/a...
ABC TV Clock
Interactive recreation of the ABC TV clock (1974, 1975, 1982).
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During a speech in Tehran today, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that "several thousand people were killed" during the recent protests by those he described as "seditionists", confirming for the first time that the death toll from the protests is in the thousands.
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership. She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
We headed to the Bargoed elections office on a wet and windy morning this week to see how the parties spent their money in the Caerphilly by-election campaign Labour spent double the victors Plaid, at roughly £27 per eventual vote. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Labour outspent rivals on failed Caerphilly Senedd by-election bid
Labour came third in the Caerphilly by-election, its first parliamentary defeat in the seat for 100 years.
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ITV Wales/YouGov/Cardiff University polling is suggesting a rewiring of Welsh politics in its latest poll. Labour have won every domestic parliamentary election in Wales since the 1920s. This has them in fourth, level pegging with the Tories. Plaid first, Reform second, Greens third
