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The Welsh government tourism body is telling tourists to stay away
"Visit Wales. Later"
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I've arrived at Welsh Conservative conference. This is the media room. That's ITV.
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Can we please spare a moment to pay tribute to Arwyn Jones's phone battery, which has presumably been hammered by notifications?
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Protest outside the National Assembly against prorogation of Parliament
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David TC Davies has told BBC Wales he believes he has lost his seat
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The FAW official video for the World Cup includes a monster truck load of Welsh politics. A not exhaustive list of what it shows includes:
Treweryn
Gwynfor Evans
The Miners' Strike
The Betty Campbell statue
Protests over English signs
and the '97 referendum result
Ry'n ni yma o hyd, er gwaetha pawb a phopeth.
Er dued yw'r fagddu o'n cwmpas, ry'n ni'n barod am doriad y wawr!
#ArBenYByd
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#TogetherStronger
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#YWalGoch
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Welsh Labour Senedd politicians hold meeting to discuss concerns about Vaughan Gething
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Labour Senedd member tells BBC it is uncertain Vaughan Gething can carry on
BBC Wales understands meeting to take place tomorrow of Welsh Parliament Labour group
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Former MP Kim Howells says Welsh Labour should replace Vaughan Gething
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Didn't get enough Senedd nominations what I heard
Joe Biden ends re-election campaign, saying "it is in the best interest of my party and the country"
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CONFIRMED
Labour's Vaughan Gething to face Vote of No Confidence next week
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Two MSs are off sick
The vote is tight
As things stand it looks like Labour's Vaughan Gething could lose a vote of no confidence this afternoon
Vaughan Gething set to lose confidence vote in Senedd, with two of his backbenchers off sick
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Seven Welsh Lab MPs voted for a people's vote and broke the whip:
Tonia Antoniazzi
Ann Clwyd
Geraint Davies
Anna McMorrin
Albert Owen
Owen Smith
Jo Stephens
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In a dramatic statement, Hannah Blythyn
Denied leaking
Said she was never shown evidence that she had
Said she was never told about an investigation into her, that led to her being sacked
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David Melding has quit the Welsh Tory front bench over the Internal Market bill
With regret but resolve I have resigned as shadow Counsel General and my other posts in the shadow cabinet.
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GETHING AND NRW
There has not been much public reaction today from politicians to our story that Vaughan Gething lobbied on behalf of a company whose owner later gave him thousands
But privately there's concern among Labour sources
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"Will you join with me, first minister, in issuing a note of caution to those people tempted to cut their own hair during the course of coronavirus,"
@AMCarwyn
asks, "as I am an example of that"
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Back in March we did a story, based on a EIR request from me, that showed that Vaughan Gething had lobbied NRW to ease off it's restrictions on a subsidiary of a firm that went on to give him £200k
It's now emerged that Gething tried to persuade NRW not to release that info
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I asked the Welsh government if it can provide evidence for the claim that Hannah Blythyn leaked the text messages. I'm told they have nothing further to add.
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We have been running this story since last night. We are still yet to receive an official response from the Conservative party
PM Boris Johnson asked if he’ll sack Tory assembly candidate Ross England, who was accused by a judge of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial
Read more:
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There are now more UKIP AMs that have been leaders than haven't
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Mark Drakeford at his desk on his last morning as FM
📸Welsh government
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One of Wales' brightest political stars with a great future ahead of him, who was influencing government policy even as he suffered with terminal cancer, taken at a brutally young age. A huge loss to the assembly and to Welsh politics.
The death of Steffan Lewis brings a tragic end to the promising career of a politician long tipped as a future leader of his party
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This will get crowded out by a busy UK news cycle, but I can't quite remember anything like a recent former Labour FM attacking a policy decision of a new Labour Welsh government months after it began
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Ken Skates has told the Senedd that the process of reverting some roads back to 30mph will begin in September
Lee Waters, the former transport minister who made the announcement, watched behind him
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From me today - the Welsh government has spent almost £32k on a podcast which opens, in separate English and Welsh versions, with an interview with the man who leads the government that paid for it. From first sight that isn't very clear.
Welsh government-funded podcast interviewing the First Minister Mark Drakeford accused of wasting money and lacking transparency
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I've been working on this blog for a short while - it's short of answers, but underlines some of the ill-feeling that exists in Welsh Labour.
Gething backers worry about a challenge, and pin the blame on Jeremy Miles, which opponents say is ridiculous
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Found these Welsh MPs in the petitioners list to the Scottish case, which has found prorogation unlawful
Geraint Davies
Hywel Williams
Lord Hain
Tonia Antoniazzi
Wayne David
Stephen Doughty
Jonathan Edwards
Ruth Jones
Ben Lake
Anna McMorrin
Madeline Moon
Owen Smith
Jo Stevens
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Very chuffed to turn up on this shortlist for political journalist of the year for the Wales Media Awards. Thank you!
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Welsh Tories are considering a no confidence vote into Vaughan Gething's leadership.
They're speaking to other parties about holding it in opposition time
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Ken Skates, just sipping out of his Ken Skates branded Transport for Wales mug
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A new report from the Senedd's accounts committee has a blinding array of findings
All in all, it raises serious questions over how the Welsh government manages its affairs at the top
Here's a 🧵...
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No Welsh government ministers were available to appear on Politics Wales this morning
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Labour MP Beth Winter tells S4C there should be an independent inquiry into Vaughan Gething's £200k donation
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Welsh Typo of the Year
Ex-Welsh Sec disagrees with Alun Cairns’ championing new ‘bi-modal’ trains. Stephen Crabb says they’re ‘second best option’ to electrocution
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Standing order 6.16 of the Welsh Assembly states that the presiding officer's determinations as to the interpretation or application of standing orders in the assembly are final
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Nigel Farage, according to the press release we've had from GBN, has apparently challenged Mark Drakeford to appear on his show to explain the decision not to have GBN on Senedd TVs.
We've been told the decision was taken by Elin Jones, the presiding officer.
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In a surprise move, presiding officer Elin Jones has granted the Conservatives a topical question on yesterday's personal statement by Hannah Blythyn
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The Welsh Government is discussing the potential for the recall of the assembly - meeting with the PO this afternoon
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Corbyn is getting mobbed trying to leave the Merthyr rally
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Ah, a tweet suggesting the Russell Brand investigation is a dead cat to distract from the 20mph limit in Wales.
Yes of course, that makes sense doesn't it.
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I'm going to be in Haverfordwest later for the Welsh EU declaration.
I have bought crisps and pop.
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Vaughan Gething likely to face vote of no confidence next week
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That appears to be James Dean Bradfield playing in Public Service Broadcasting's encore at Blackwood's Miners Institute
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No AM will be able to use assembly funds to employ family from 2021, under new plans
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Earlier I was bored so I asked that image maker thing on Bing to make me a BBC Wales building that looks like a spaceship
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Singing from Welsh MPs while the prorogation ceremony was taking place in the Lords
The Welsh members also gave us a beautiful song. With harmony! 🏴
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Boris Johnson arrives at Ty Hywel for talks with Mark Drakeford, to a chorus of boos
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Substantial update to our Gething story
I've spoken to supporters of the soon-to-be former first minister who tell me that Jeremy Miles cannot unite the group and should not be the next Welsh Labour leader
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UKIP's Bennett storms off from an interview with
@ruthmosalski
after she challenges him on his views on Islamic religious dress,
@WalesOnline
reports (with transcript)
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Hannah Blythyn is making a personal statement in the Senedd this afternoon
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Steffan Lewis, who died five years ago today, would be regularly seen in the BBC Ty Hywel office armed with a press release he was hoping we (often, I) would write up. He was full of ideas and was genuinely a rising star in the Senedd
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Three donation stories in one:
* Antoniw becomes latest senior figure to criticise donations
* More money comes to light from Dauson from 2018 Gething campaign
* Accepted left over Gething cash would go to UK Labour, says Electoral Commission
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Glorious day back at Ty Hywel, Senedd Cymru - my first since that frightening month of March 2020
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Odd fuss over the leader of Plaid Cymru, who thinks Wales should ultimately be independent from the UK, not identifying as British
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VONC
Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth told Radio Wales Breakfast: "This is up to Labour... Are there Labour members who are wrestling with their conscience. Absolutely, we know there are.
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We rarely get decent pictures from the floor of the Welsh Parliament - so its been great to get these in the last few days
📸 Matthew Horwood/Welsh government
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Angela Burns accused her colleagues in the Senedd chamber of not being "brave" enough to back more AMs to improve the institution's critical scrutiny. She said she did not understand why Welsh people should not have the same rights as Scots.
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ICYMI
Jeremy Miles told Politics Wales he would not have taken donations from David John Neal, who gave Vaughan Gething £200,000
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DRAKEFORD
The first minister appeared on Radio Wales Breakfast this morning
As you'd expect, he defended his government's switch to 20mph, promising it could cut casualty numbers in the thousands and save the NHS millions
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Vaughan Gething to respond to topical question in Senedd later to Hannah Blythyn, who broke her silence on her sacking
Expecting it around 5.30pm
In a surprise move, presiding officer Elin Jones has granted the Conservatives a topical question on yesterday's personal statement by Hannah Blythyn
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BBC Wales understands that Jeremy Miles is likely to run for the Welsh Labour leadership, per my colleague
@Cemlyn
Davies
A source close to Mr Miles said he's weighting up options and has received encouragement to stand
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It's unclear at the moment how Vaughan Gething can pass a budget
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New pics
Gething makes and signs his affirmation to the King in presence of Mr Justice Griffiths, Senior Presiding Judge of the Wales Circuit
All Matthew Horwood/Welsh government
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Jeremy Miles isn't standing in the leadership race, backing Eluned Morgan instead
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Rishi Sunak, ahead of Welsh Conservative conference, says he will keep using the name Brecon Beacons
Bannau Brycheiniog National Park has stopped using the former English name
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The Welsh government have released pictures of Mark Drakeford's final cabinet meeting 1/3
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Had this from a pro-Gething source:
"Remarkable that Jeremy is already out of the blocks. There's a very strong feeling that it should be a woman now. Particularly as the most experienced person there now is a woman."
i.e. Eluned Morgan (not clear if she wants it yet)
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Its been 67 years but today the Welsh Labour leadership contest ends
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A big detail of this story is still not fully told - where was Gareth Davies last night? Was he at party conference? The Senedd Tories are not responding to requests to explain
Tory MS Gareth Davies missed a crucial vote on Covid passes - the Conservatives have not explained where he was, and a minister says the vote will not be re-run
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Former first minister Mark Drakeford backs Eluned Morgan for Welsh Labour leadership
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NRW releases correspondence from Vaughan Gething to regulators about Atlantic Recycling, which had been prosecuted in 2013 and 2017
Welsh Labour leadership candidate Vaughan Gething lobbied regulators on behalf of a firm that had been prosecuted for waste crimes, and whose owner later donated to him
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Simon Hart, ahead of the Welsh Government response, said: "I do wish Welsh Government would stop fretting about their own little status in Cardiff and actually look at the bigger picture".
Welsh Government accuses UK ministers of 'aggressively' undermining devolution following news levelling up fund will be UK-wide and controlled by Treasury
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Struggling to think of a demo in Cardiff that last reached that sort of figure, especially on a weeknight. Charlie Hebdo?
March reached the other end of Cardiff's Queen St. Chanting, cheering. Always hard to estimate numbers but probably 2-3000
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Sir Keir Starmer was asked by Chris Mason today for a response to the sacking
He said: “I don’t know the details of what’s happened this morning”.
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Totally normal day where Donald Trump has RTd a FoxNews host with a link to a BBC Wales news story.
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ICYMI
It's now come to light that Dauson gave Vaughan Gething £280,000 over two campaigns, after £42,000 extra was revealed to have been left off a donation database in an Electoral Commission error
Extra cash from the 2024 campaign could also end up with central Labour
Three donation stories in one:
* Antoniw becomes latest senior figure to criticise donations
* More money comes to light from Dauson from 2018 Gething campaign
* Accepted left over Gething cash would go to UK Labour, says Electoral Commission
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The prime minister of the United Kingdom again mispronounced the name of one of the United Kingdom's constituent countries in her speech just now.
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Ukip Wales' manifesto says it will support the devolution of business rates, which has already happened.
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This is
@AndrewRTDavies
calling for Tories at 2015 conference to put money in collection buckets to stop
@MarkReckless
getting elected
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A group of protesters were outside waving Yes Cymru, EU and Wales flags
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Apart from anything else, the Russell George story is another conduct issue for Andrew RT Davies' Senedd group - the 2nd it has faced within the month of June.
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A senior Tory councillor in Powys has told the BBC that Craig Williams is expected to lose his seat in Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr - he's expecting Labour to win
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Lord Elystan Morgan did not mince his words on the Wales Bill on Sunday Supplement, which he said was "not worthy of the people of Wales"
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At least England can focus on the real drama now, which is the four leadership contests going on over the border
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.
@SeneddResearch
is an under appreciated resource - their articles are very handy
As
@WelshGovernment
set out their traffic light guide for moving out of lockdown, our article summarises the approaches and considerations of the four UK nations.
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Also today: a truck doing survey work on a road project which environmentalists are worried will damage the environment got stuck in that environment
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So basically the assembly could (*could*) end up rejecting the withdrawal agreement through a Plaid Cymru amendment because Labour couldn't seem to table such a motion to the debate themselves.
Which is awkward.
In short, it seems like the Welsh Government has made a bit of a dog's Brexit of this motion.
ENDS
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We've written up Mark Drakeford's angry outburst against Andrew RT Davies
In the ten years I've worked in the Senedd I struggle to remember a time when a senior politician has reacted like this in the chamber.
In angry Senedd scenes Mark Drakeford loses temper with Tories after exchange on ambulance waiting times
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Of everything that happened today, Miles telling a Commons committee that he had had a conversation with DBW about due diligence was one of the most quietly significant things we heard
Jeremy Miles has told a Westminster committee that he has asked DBW to reflect on its due dilligence processes after £400,000 loan to a Dauson Environmental Group subsidiary
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Tories say they'll vote with Plaid on their motion later calling for HS2 to generate consequential cash for Wales.
Means its very likely the Senedd will pass the motion unanimously.
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Atlantic Recycling, owned by Gething-donor Dauson Environmental, pleaded guilty to an environmental offence in January, NRW says
Company that is part of group which gave Vaughan Gething £200,000 admitted new environmental offence in January
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