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…
Politics
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…
The 2024 Welsh Constituency Boundary Changes Background Wales’ current Parliamentary constituency boundaries have been in use since the 2010 General Election and are therefore out of…
On the face of it, the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill should not be controversial; the draft legislation seeks to further decentralise decision-making from Westminster by empowering local authorit…
Following the cessation of Liz Truss’ premiership, Rishi Sunak was this week elected Prime Minister whereupon he appointed experienced Grant Shapps to lead the Department for Business, Energy & In…
On Tuesday 16th August, following its passing through the Senate and House of Representatives, President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill which has revitalised the Democra…
After another tumultuous week in British politics which saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson forced to announce his resignation following an exodus of ministers, political focus has shifted, once again, f…
About a month after the dust has settled, Account Executive Aaron Marchant has looked at the key points to take from the Australian Federal Election, and how climate change once continues to play a ke…
With the 2022 local elections signifying the halfway point of the current Parliamentary session, and the 2024 General Election growing ever closer, it is important to assess the climate policies of bo…
On the 5th May 2022, voters will once again head to the polls to elect 1,234 local councillors in 762 wards, across all 22 local authorities in Wales. Against a backdrop of boundary changes, voting re…