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The place to come for the Welsh view of Westminster and updates on the politics and personalities of Parliament
11:50 UK time, Thursday, 16 May 2013
It could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
Traditionally, when Plaid Cymru's 3 MPs succeed in forcing a vote at Westminster, it is followed by a Plaid press release registering "shock" that Labour MPs refused to vote with Plaid even where they agree with them.
13:39 UK time, Wednesday, 15 May 2013
He may be slightly better known for his recent appearance on Have I Got News For You but Tory MP Michael Fabricant found time in his busy schedule to drop in on Welsh Question Time in the House of Commons this morning.
Mr Fabricant, who occasionally mentions his Welsh roots, wanted to know if the UK government would consider re-naming the National Assembly for Wales.
10:21 UK time, Wednesday, 15 May 2013
It's shaping up to be another exciting day at Westminster. Yes, Welsh Secretary David Jones and his deputy Stephen Crabb will be answering questions from MPs in the first Welsh Question Time here since February.
In other news, there may be a vote or two on Europe as MPs complete their debate on the Queen's Speech, a speech most Welsh Tory backbenchers found wanting due to its absence of a commitment to hold a referendum on EU membership.
21:02 UK time, Thursday, 9 May 2013
As away fixtures go, it probably ranks with the Camp Nou or the Bernabeu.
Cardiff City played at the House of Lords tonight, in a reception to mark the club's promotion to the Premier League.
11:40 UK time, Wednesday, 8 May 2013
It's that time of the year again. So what's in it for Wales?
The answer is that almost all the new laws proposed in the Queen's Speech affect Wales in some way. Even among those bills that are England-only, such as the Care bill, which introduces a lifetime cap on care costs of £75,000, the Welsh government will be looking closely at their possible impact on Wales.
08:34 UK time, Wednesday, 8 May 2013
The roads have been swept - and swept again. The lampposts have been painted; the tiaras have been polished.
The state opening of parliament is one of the major events in the Westminster calendar. The Queen will arrive later this morning to perform a role she has performed so many times before.
18:27 UK time, Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Parliament may not be sitting (the 2012/13 session was prorogued last week amid traditional pomp and Norman French) but that doesn't mean politicians are off sunning themselves in faraway places.
Next week, the Queen will open the new session of Parliament with a speech setting out the UK government's programme of new laws for the coming parliamentary year.
14:37 UK time, Tuesday, 30 April 2013
It was one of the first policy decisions taken by the secretary of state for Wales after the general election.
Cheryl Gillan banned first class travel for staff in the department which represents Welsh interests in the UK government.
15:47 UK time, Monday, 29 April 2013
"A conference like this doesn't just happen," David Jones told his audience.
Indeed, last year it didn't happen at all. So little wonder that Welsh Conservatives were pleased to spend Saturday at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea for a one-day conference.
14:09 UK time, Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The NHS in Wales may be the responsibility of the Welsh government in Cardiff but it remains a political football at Westminster.
David Cameron's default response to criticism of the NHS in England is to criticise Labour's record on health in Wales. The issue dominated prime minister's questions today after Ed Miliband chose to highlight problems in English accident and emergency services.
16:20 UK time, Tuesday, 23 April 2013
There must be something about the sea air at Llandudno.
It was there, at the Liberal assembly (as they were known) in 1981, that David Steel told his party members: "Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government."
12:45 UK time, Tuesday, 23 April 2013
There are, the House of Lords was told last night, two types of Severn bore.
Labour peer Lord Berkeley quoted from a column in the Financial Times last December. "There are two varieties of Severn bore," wrote the FT's Jonathan Guthrie. "The first is a regular surge of water up-river due to the funnelling effect that the English and Welsh coastlines have on the tide.
20:21 UK time, Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Politicians from the main four political parties in Wales attended Margaret Thatcher's funeral at St Paul's Cathedral.
I spoke to two of them - Welsh Secretary David Jones and Plaid Cymru parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd - about the ceremony and the impact of the former prime minister's policies on Wales.
15:54 UK time, Wednesday, 17 April 2013
And in other news.......
Cardiff City have won promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in more than 50 years.
16:22 UK time, Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The current Conservative MP for Clwyd West is a big fan of Margaret Thatcher, but the same could not always be said of her predecessors.
Welsh Secretary David Jones has recalled meeting the former prime minister shortly after the 2005 general election.
16:04 UK time, Monday, 15 April 2013
Regular readers, both of you, may remember how last month the Wales Office suggested to MPs that the secretary of state for Wales had yet to visit his own office in Cardiff.
This sounded rather odd as the figures were said to include visits to his own office in Cardiff Bay. My scepticism at the time appears to have been well-founded. Today, the Wales Office Minister Stephen Crabb has apologised to parliament and published corrected figures.
15:32 UK time, Monday, 15 April 2013
One week after her death, plans are afoot for a Margaret Thatcher memorial library, museum and educational centre as a permanent memorial to the former prime minister.
Welsh Secretary David Jones told The Sunday Telegraph: "Margaret Thatcher was Britain's greatest post-war leader. I can think of no better tribute to her than the establishment of the Margaret Thatcher Library."
19:47 UK time, Monday, 8 April 2013
A search for "Wales" in the index of The Downing Street Years will prove a fruitless one.
Margaret Thatcher took power weeks after the Welsh people had voted overwhelmingly against a proposed assembly in Cardiff. For the Thatcher years, devolution was not on many people's agenda, and certainly not hers.
10:52 UK time, Thursday, 28 March 2013
Why should the Celts have all the committees of the great and the good?
A committee of MPs has recommended the setting up of a UK-wide constitutional convention to try to answer the question: "What do we want the UK to look like in 10 or 20 years time?"
18:07 UK time, Tuesday, 26 March 2013
OK, it's the heart of the capital city, with a busy station, but why is Cardiff Central so popular with Wales Office ministers?
Official figures released in a parliamentary written answer say more than half the official visits made by David Jones, Stephen Crabb and Baroness Randerson have been to this key marginal constituency.
David Cornock has been covering politics from Westminster for more than two decades.
He grew up near Penarth in South Wales and trained on the Western Mail.
He moved to London in 1988 and became the newspaper's political editor.
In 1995, he joined BBC Wales as its parliamentary correspondent.
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