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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“We’re ready for an election.” The First Minister of Wales tells Sky News he’s prepared for a general election, open to working with Andy Burnham in a hung parliament, and discusses Welsh independence, NATO and social care plans 📺Watch the full sit-down m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpP4...
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Welsh first minister Rhun ap Iorwerth: I won't 'force' independence
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Welsh Labour leader tells Sky News he backs Sadiq Khan's call for UK to rejoin the EU news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: Burnham says he will fight next election on new taxes for social care
The Labour Party's annual conference has kicked off in Liverpool. Follow the latest.
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Welsh Labour leader tells Sky News he backs Sadiq Khan's call for UK to rejoin the EU news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: Burnham says he will fight next election on new taxes for social care
The Labour Party's annual conference has kicked off in Liverpool. Follow the latest.
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NEW: Understand PM to meet Tata boss in Port Talbot tomorrow Read more: news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: PM calls on employers 'to step forward and offer work placements' to young people
Employers should "step forward and offer work placements" to young people, the Andy Burnham has urged. Also today, Reform has vowed to axe GDPR, undo the hike to national insurance introduced by Labou...
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NEW: Understand PM to meet Tata boss in Port Talbot tomorrow Read more: news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: PM calls on employers 'to step forward and offer work placements' to young people
Employers should "step forward and offer work placements" to young people, the Andy Burnham has urged. Also today, Reform has vowed to axe GDPR, undo the hike to national insurance introduced by Labou...
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Burnham rules out devolution reform, Sky News understands - despite his previous calls for change news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: Date for Burnham's expected leadership takeover announced - Mahmood asks for own minister to be sacked
Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has announced the timetable for selecting a new Labour leader. If there is only one candidate, Andy Burnham would be announced as leader on 17 July, paving ...
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Burnham rules out devolution reform, Sky News understands - despite his previous calls for change news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: Date for Burnham's expected leadership takeover announced - Mahmood asks for own minister to be sacked
Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has announced the timetable for selecting a new Labour leader. If there is only one candidate, Andy Burnham would be announced as leader on 17 July, paving ...
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿New Senedd polling by Sky News / More in Common Ref narrowly leads on 28% with Plaid just behind on 26%. Labour in third, but on 23% - higher compared to other polls which had them on 18%. 🔷Reform: 28% 🌼 Plaid Cymru: 26% 🌹 Labour: 23% 🌳 Conservatives: 10% 🟠 Lib Dems: 7% 🟩 Green:4% ⬜️Other: 2%
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Rural crime in Wales at its highest in more than a decade. Wales is the only UK nation to see a rise in rural crime. Another challenge for a struggling industry.
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Farage to pledge to reopen blast furnaces in Port Talbot Coal mining in Wales could be part of Reform’s ambition to “reopen Port Talbot steel” First major speech of Farage ahead of Senedd elections next year where Reform hope to be in Govt news.sky.com/story/farage...
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Farage to pledge to reopen blast furnaces in Port Talbot
Reindustrialising Wales will be at the centre of the Reform UK leader's speech later in Port Talbot.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 31/05/2025
Kids 'sleep with vapes under pillows' - but will sales ban on disposables have any effect?
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Kids 'sleep with vapes under pillows' - but will sales ban on disposables have any effect?
As a ban on the sale of disposable vapes comes into force on Sunday, a doctor who set up the first-ever clinic to help children stop vaping has said she has seen patients so addicted they couldn't sleep through the night without them.
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Almost 60 years after Aberfan, the Welsh Gov has told Sky News it would "be difficult" to give "a cast iron guarantee" that lives won't be lost because of a coal tip disaster. @alifortescuenews.bsky.social’s report from the south Wales valleys youtu.be/mmF6l3JM_Ug
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'Can't guarantee lives won't be lost' because of a coal tip disaster, says Welsh government
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 31/01/2025
Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything % saying Brexit has had a positive impact on... Control the UK has over its laws: 31% UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23% UK's level of international trade: 11% NHS: 6% Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"There's nothing Welsh about Reform...they're very much an English focussed party" the First Minister tells Sky News. As @alifortescuenews.bsky.social explores the rise of smaller parties in Wales ahead of next year's Senedd elections. news.sky.com/story/could-...
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Could we be about to witness a seismic political shift in Wales?
Politics in Wales has long been dominated by Labour. However, Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party are eyeing up the Senedd elections due to take place in the first half of 2026.
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"There's nothing Welsh about Reform...they're very much an English focussed party" the First Minister tells Sky News. As @alifortescuenews.bsky.social explores the rise of smaller parties in Wales ahead of next year's Senedd elections. news.sky.com/story/could-...
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Could we be about to witness a seismic political shift in Wales?
Politics in Wales has long been dominated by Labour. However, Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party are eyeing up the Senedd elections due to take place in the first half of 2026.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 16/01/2025
Which news story have Britons heard the most about, when asked on Mon/Tues? Los Angeles wildfires: 62% Grooming gangs inquiry: 5% The state of the UK economy: 3% Elon Musk's role in UK politics: 3% Criticisms of the Labour Party: 2% Labour economic / tax policies: 2% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 13/01/2025
Reform within touching distance of Labour as poll suggests 'new era' for British politics
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Reform within touching distance of Labour as poll suggests 'new era' for British politics
Reform UK has grown in support to within one percentage point of Labour according to a new poll for Sky News by YouGov which suggests Britain has entered a new era of three-way party politics.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 13/01/2025
The Welsh Refugee Council will pursue a complaint with the Senedd's Standards Commissioner over a 'factually incorrect and misleading' video of school girls shared online by Conservative MS Andrew RT Davies. ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social
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Andrew RT Davies reported to standards commissioner over school girl social media post
Emily Price  The Welsh Refugee Council will pursue a complaint with the Senedd’s Standards Commissioner over a “factually incorrect and misleading” video of school girls shared online by Conservative…
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A new poll for Sky News by YouGov puts Nigel Farage's party just one percentage point behind the Government.
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Hannah Woodward @hannahwoodward.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NEW: Eluned Morgan ‘expecting rail uplift’ from Westminster as she slams ‘unfair’ HS2 funding. UK Gov source said it would "signal a direction of travel" on transport in Wales in the coming days, + the issue will be a "priority" in the spring spending review. news.sky.com/story/welsh-...
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Welsh first minister 'expecting uplift' in money for railways in Wales from Westminster as she slams 'unfair' HS2 funding
Eluned Morgan became Welsh Labour's new leader last summer after she ran unopposed to replace Vaughan Gething. Since then, she has been pushing her Labour colleague Keir Starmer to boost rail funding,...
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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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I thought a lot about how to open tonight's
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Because over the last week there's been lies and disinformation...there's been politics, so much politics. Mud slinging, weaponisation, the lot.
But there's a reason that this was able to happen.
Because people - rightly - feel that an appalling child abuse scandal took place in this country and there's been a lack of accountability. The recommendations of the public inquiry into the scandal haven't been implemented. Nobody has lost their job.
And frankly... there's no assurance that this couldn't happen again. Or that it isn't happening still.
Some of the perpetrators have been locked up.
But this is also a story about our institutions turning a blind eye. Whether social services or the police... the people who were supposed to be looking after these vulnerable girls... that could have saved them... treating them like the criminal rather than the victim.
What's changed since then? HAS anything changed? We'll be asking on tonight's show.
We'll also speak to Health Minister Stephen Kinnock who tells me the Government WILL now implement all of the inquiry's recommendations.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is a must read by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social which rings an alarm bell long overdue. Both main parties being at 26% is not normal. Every interaction I have with voters (left, right, centre) confirms their anger with the status quo. Yet as he says “Strangely, few in Westminster seem concerned”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Keir Starmer is considering closing a loophole that would allow Elon Musk to bankroll Nigel Farage and Reform, one of his ministers has signalled. Under the proposal, donors would no longer be able to funnel donations to British political parties via UK companies bylinetimes.com/2024/12/06/k...
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Keir Starmer Considers Closing Elon Musk Donations Loophole to Stop 'Foreign Interference' in UK Elections
A rumoured $100 million donation from Musk to Nigel Farage's Reform would be banned under the proposal
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Matt Forde @matt-forde.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If chocolate is so bad for us, why do I feel so good when I open my chocolate advent calendar every morning?
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 27/11/2024
Former prime minister now supports a bill to legalise assisted dying, and says that it will help bring about a ‘meaningful reduction in human suffering’ ⬇️
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David Cameron changes mind to come out in favour of assisted dying
Former prime minister now supports a change to the law as it will help bring about a ‘meaningful reduction in human suffering’
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/11/2024
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
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Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global…
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🚨 LAUNCHING TODAY 🚨 Nearly two years ago, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social unveiled the Westminster Accounts, a free tool designed to give people greater understanding of the money that flows through parliament. Now, with Peer Review, we take on another arcane part of our system - the House of Lords
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David Deans @deansofcardiff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Eluned Morgan publicly called on Plaid Cymru to help her pass a Welsh government budget in FMQs today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wales' Eluned Morgan invites Plaid for help to pass budget
Wales' first minister says Plaid Cymru could help the Welsh Labour government pass its budget.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 18/11/2024
A “talented” vet killed himself after affluent clients would not pay to save their pets but instead were having them put down, an inquest has heard
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Suicide vet was upset by well-off owners having pets put down
John Ellis became distressed by clients ‘with brand-new cars’ who said they could not afford treatment
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Sorry, have I woken up in 1999?
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Sam Coates @samcoatessky.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Everything you need to know about the day ahead in British politics in under 20 minutes With me and Jack Blanchard of Politico In your podcast feeds from 740am, Mon-Thur Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/29bJtl0...
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 17/11/2024
Sir Keir Starmer has backed plans for Britain to pay countries such as Vietnam and Iraq to help them prevent thousands of illegal migrants from setting off each year for the UK
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Keir Starmer backs payment for countries to cut migrant crossings
The prime minister said it was the ‘right thing’ for Britain to offer financial incentives to countries such as Vietnam and Iraq to curb migrant departures
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Emily Price @emilypricejourno.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has hinted that Jane Dodds should resign after Nation Cymru revealed how she made a ‘grave error of judgement’ in her handling of a sex abuse case while working for the Church of England
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Sir Ed Davey hints that Jane Dodds should quit as Welsh Lib Dem leader
Martin Shipton Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has hinted that Jane Dodds should resign as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats after Nation.Cymru reported how she had been accused of making a “...
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Rhys Williams @rhyswilliamsnews.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I asked Wales’ school inspectorate Estyn for emails regarding phonics and/or cueing following the publication of our report in September. I’ve received a response which says while they do hold relevant information, they need more time to decide whether releasing it is in the “public interest” 👇
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Millie Cooke @milliecooke.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
EXC: Thousands could be left without protection from slavery and other human rights abuses as a result of a loophole in the government’s Employment Rights Bill Yvette Cooper has been warned migrant fishermen are facing breaches of their human rights www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Thousands left without protection from slavery in employment rights bill loophole
Exclusive: The government has been warned that migrant fishermen are facing breaches of their human rights
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Daniel Hewitt @danielhewittitv.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
INVESTIGATION; We’ve been digging into Project Phoenix - the internal Post Office inquiry into the way it’s own investigators conducted interviews and interrogations of hundreds of innocent subpostmasters which helped get them prosecuted. Watch the full report on ITVX www.itv.com/watch/news/r...
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Latest podcast is out where we talk about what Reform mean for Wales. Includes my interview with Nigel Farage.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’ve made a starter pack of lobby (ish) journos - those reporting on UK politics Give me a nudge if you think you should be on it and I missed you! go.bsky.app/H3jDVJb
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Emily Price @emilypricejourno.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter pack of Welsh politicians go.bsky.app/JJzbZsm
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 14/11/2024
Is it time to disestablish the Church of England? By 50% to 21%, Britons say it is Should separate: 50% (+13 from 1957, Gallup) Connection should continue: 21% (-16) (Survey conducted before calls for Justin Welby to resign) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Always on the look out for interesting voices on #PoliticsHub and would be genuinely interested to hear who you guys would be keen to hear more from (political, economic, business, social etc) so if you have any guest suggestions then let me know 👇
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Darran Marshall @dmarshall.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
NEW #GE24 Irish Times Opinion Poll Support for Independents jumps but Fine Gael remains most popular party. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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