The announcement on the board about the business scheduled for the Assembly briefing room was amusing - to cynical journalists - but also, as it turned out, completely misleading.
“Welsh Lib Dem” said the board, which sparked jokes about how small the party had recently grown.
But the gist of the press briefing was just the [...]
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Tags: council control·Labour·Plaid·Welsh Lib Dems
There’s one thing you can say about the Glasgow election result. None of us can be sure quite why it happened, but we all knew who would pick up the winnings.
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Tags: assembly 2011 election·Clem Attlee·council election result·Glasgow west election·labour council losses. council scrutiny committees·Plaid·torfaen council·Welsh Tories
Rhodri Morgan wandered up in decidedly relaxed fashion to talk to the press in the wake of the “terrible” election results he had just witnessed.
His trousers seemed to have come straight from the gardening shed and his “Chile” jumper talked all about leisure and absolutely nothing about governance.
Relaxed he, indeed, was as he talked to [...]
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Tags: Caerphilly·council elections·Independent councillors·Labour·Merthyr·Plaid·Torfaen·Vale of Glamorgan