Last month Thirty4/7 held its first roundtable event with the leadership of Bristol City Council and developers in the private sector following the May 2024 local elections and the July 2024 General E…
Politics
Liverpool, September 2024. Barely three months since Labour’s landslide victory in the July general election, and already a government under intense scrutiny. The mission – to reassure supporters, the…
On 27 June 2023, then-First Minister Mark Drakeford announced in his Annual Legislative Statement that the Welsh Government was to bring forward two Bills: one to reform how the Senedd is elected and …
Following its landslide election victory on 4 July, the new Labour government has now set out its legislative agenda.[1]
The State Opening of Parliament heralds the commencement of the new parliamenta…
Summary
The Labour Party has won the general election, winning a total of 412 seats (+211) with 33.7% of the vote – the smallest vote share of a winning party in decades. The Conservatives suffered t…
Summary
The Labour Party has won the general election, winning a total of 412 seats (+211) with 33.7% of the vote – the smallest vote share of a winning party in decades. The Conservatives suffered t…
Summary
The Labour Party has won the general election, winning a total of 412 seats (+211) with 33.7% of the vote – the smallest vote share of a winning party in decades. The Conservatives suffered t…
Ahead of the 2024 General Election on 4 July, the political parties have published their manifestos, setting out a programme of government for the next Parliament, including policies on energy, housin…
Following his election as First Minister of Wales, Vaughan Gething has appointed his new ministerial team, revealing both a shake-up in departmental responsibilities and a surprising degree of personn…
Introduction
On Saturday 16 March, Vaughan Gething MS was elected leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister of Wales, replacing Mark Drakeford as the fifth leader of the devolved government since its …
On 13 December 2023, First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, announced that he would stand down as leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister before Easter 2024. The announcement, whilst surprising, w…
You can feel it in the political ether; the spectre of the next general election is looming ever larger, and with it, the introduction of new electoral boundaries which will, quite literally, redraw t…
Following the Prime Minister’s decision to slow the pace of the UK’s transition to net zero, the Conservative Party Conference 2023, held in Manchester, revealed deep intra-party divisions, particular…
Taking to the stage in what could be his final party conference before an election, Sir Keir Starmer outlined his vision ‘to build a new Britain.’[1] Central to Starmer’s message were two contradictin…
There is always a risk with any political debate that the matter at hand is overly simplified and reduced to the endless exchange of soundbites. And so it has been with the ongoing debate over the rol…
On Wednesday 5 July, Thirty4/7 Communications virtually attended the Institute for Government’s Net Zero Conference, an event organised to examine the current state of the Government’s climate objecti…
As the next general election looms ever closer, an exciting development has taken place; planning reform, a long-overlooked yet crucial policy, has re-entered the mainstream political arena as a point…
As a consequence of the May 2023 local elections, following which South Gloucestershire Council shifted into no overall control, the Liberal Democrats and Labour have formally signed a coalition agree…
In this blog, Bethan Williams explores the recent leadership shake-up in Plaid Cymru, the factors which prompted Price’s resignation, and what this means in practice for the cooperation agreement betw…
As the political dust continues to settle following the local election results in England last week, the Thirty4/7 team has been discussing the outcome across key areas in the West of England.
Longsta…
On the weekend of 11-12 March, Welsh Labour convened in Llandudno for its annual conference. With the next general election looming ever closer, politicians and delegates alike were keen to demonstrat…