Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

In all the comment about Plaid’s performance in the elections, Caerffili has been almost ignored.
Certainly, it’s significant that Plaid lost Gwynedd - but as the seats went to another lot of Nats, there’s not much difference politically.
Far more important is what happened in the Valleys. From the insignificant mention in Plaid’s main comment on their [...]

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Alison Halford always seemed a wee bit different from her colleagues when she sat as an AM in Cardiff. Her years as assistant chief constable for Merseyside gave her an outlook on her fellow man which was a trifle broader than most of us ever attained.

Although she sat for Labour, she was fiercely independent; independent [...]

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