Lee Waters MS

Published on LabourList 30th June 2025 The compelling TV series, Succession, is meant to be a satire. But its biting observations of how power and money are wielded are bang-on-the-nose. In a wide-ranging interview with the New Statesman last week its star, Brian Cox, mused on the injustices in the way the UK works.  “Wales gets the tap end of the bath every time”, the actor sagely observed. It’s not the first time a colourful metaphor has been used to describe Welsh vulnerability in the power-stakes. Neil Kinnock in the constitutional debates of the 1970s liked to talk about ‘sore thumb devolution’. He opposed an Assembly for Wales because he worried the extra support we needed would make us stick out like a sore-thumb, and risk an ‘English backlash’.  He didn’t think Welsh interests were best served by separating them from those of other parts of the UK. It is a view that continues to resonate at the ‘Welsh table’ in the Members' tearoom in the House of Commons. The curren...

Speech delivered by Eluned Morgan, Leader of Welsh Labour, on 6th May 2025 at the Norweigan Church in Cardiff Bay Bore Da. Friends, colleagues - this time next year, Wales will choose not just a new government, but a new future.  When I stepped up to lead Wales last August - the nation that shaped me, raised me and rooted my values - I did so with my eyes wide open and a strong sense of duty to my country.  I knew the scale of the task. I knew the weight of responsibility. And I knew that change was not only coming, it was needed for our Government our politics our people.  A new voting system. A new era. Welsh Labour -A government that's already delivered for 26 years. But I also realised that the risks of a divided anti- Conservative left vote and the rise of the right wing Reform party put the whole shape of the future of Wales at stake.   “Time for change” isn’t just a slogan - it’s a demand. And at the next Senedd elections Labour will answer th...