"I am absolutely pro-devolution," he told me. He points to the "groundbreaking" things that the Welsh government has been able to do, like free school meals, free prescriptions and opt-in organ donation. "If we didn't have devolution, we wouldn't have been able to forge out own path," Rhys added.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2026 Senedd (Welsh parliament) election has transformed Welsh politics. Much of the attention has focused on the rise of Plaid Cymru and Reform UK, and on Welsh Labour’s dramatic ...

Jo Stevens is the most "anti-devolution" Labour Welsh secretary in half a century, according to a former Welsh government minister. Labour Member of the Senedd (MS) Lee Waters told a podcast that Stevens was not "somebody who believes in devolution ...

A memo recorded Sir Keir Starmer telling ministers to be prepared to make decisions even if it was against the wishes of a UK nation's devolved government The prime minister has defended his approach to working with Welsh and Scottish governments a day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lord Elis-Thomas: he was a self-proclaimed Marxist - Ben Rice/Alamy Lord Elis-Thomas, who has died aged 78, was a mercurial Welsh nationalist who served 20 years as Plaid Cymru MP for ...

May 7 will go down as the worst election in the history of Welsh Labour. More than a century of electoral dominance ended with the party sitting in opposition in the Senedd (Welsh parliament) for the first time. The unavoidable question is where Welsh ...