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Here's our new trailer for The Welsh Politics Pod with @LauraMcAllister @LaurenMaeve and Lee Waters MS 👇
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£350 million for Wales. £34 billion for England.
@LauraMcAllister calls the rail funding gap discriminatory.
Where’s the investment Wales needs?
#Wales #Rail #Devolution #WelshPolitics
@ProducerOllie | @MsJoKiernan
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Is Welsh Labour sleepwalking into another electoral disaster?
Prof @LauraMcAllister warns that without a serious rethink, Labour risks handing Plaid Cymru more ground.
#WelshLabour #PlaidCymru #Wales #Senedd #WelshPolitics
@ProducerOllie | @MsJoKiernan
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NHS Wales is trapped in a ‘doom loop’ that leaves health leaders producing reports rather than improving care, a former Welsh Government Minister and an ex-health board chief have warned wp.me/p8Mk4U-1wll
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Plaid won big. So where’s the radical change?
Prof @LauraMcAllister says the honeymoon won’t last forever.
Time to turn promises into action.
#PlaidCymru #Wales #WelshPolitics
@ProducerOllie | @MsJoKiernan
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"Nothing defines a party more than how it responds to staring extinction in the face. Denial is a natural phase in the stages of grief but the demands of electoral cycles means time waits for no one." - @LauraMcAllister #Senedd #Cymru #Wales
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Professor @LauraMcAllister looks carefully at the causes of Welsh Labour's election disaster in her latest WalesOnline column and the mistakes it has made since
walesonline.co.uk/news/polit…
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National care service a real example of this - changes to fund it that will impact everyone eligible in the UK but what’s the benefit for people in Wales when care is devolved? And will that help rebuild Labour? If Burnham wants the mandate at the next election he surely needs to address this ⬇️
The difference between UK and Welsh Labour at their Liverpool conference was stark.
If you want an analogy, imagine that UK Labour and Welsh Labour were brothers.
It felt like UK Labour had just proposed to their new partner and were throwing an engagement party. Full of hope, optimism and excitement for what’s to come.
Meanwhile, Welsh Labour had just broken up with their partner of 26 years and were totally cut up about the divorce. It was like they were at their siblings’ engagement party, sipping Peroni and putting on a brave face as the festivities went on around them.
While the rest of the family talked about the future, Welsh Labour are wondering how they are going to furnish their new one-bed flat and what they can put on their new Tinder profile.
Under Burnham’s leadership at the conference, there was an inescapable feeling that at a UK level there is a vision and a drive to get things done. But there is a danger of this opportunity for change passing Wales by.
Full analysis in pinned tweet.
"The answer may lie in the reality that the centre will only devolve power if it is used in a way it approves of."
- Lee Waters for @LabourList 👇
labourlist.org/2026/09/devol…
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A boed i'r Grym fod gyda chi: Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time
Read more 🔗 trib.al/7tArRsg
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Uefa vice-president Laura McAllister says she is proud that Wales were the first home nation to withdraw their backing for Gianni Infantino.
The president of Fifa is under severe scrutiny over his controversial move to try and sell off stakes in the governing body's competitions to private investors.
He has since scrapped the plan after a backlash and now McAllister is urging more nations from around the world to come out and make a stand.
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UK (GB), YouGov poll:
REFORM~NI: 23% (+1)
LAB-S&D: 22%
CON~ECR: 19% (-2)
GREENS-G/EFA: 13%
LDEM-RE: 12% (+1)
RESTORE-*: 4%
SNP-G/EFA: 3% (+1)
PC-G/EFA: 1%
YOUR-*: 0% (-1)
+/- vs. 26-27 July 2026
Fieldwork: 02-03 August 2026
Sample size: 2,300
➤ europeelects.eu/uk
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There is an irony in two women, Laura McAllister and Lise Klaveness, leading the resistance to the great World Cup sell-off, given how football has historically and systemically kept females at arm’s length – on the pitch, on the touchlines, in the boardrooms, in its executive ranks.
Yet at UEFA, no one except president Aleksander Ceferin was more vocal about the need for seismic action than they were.
That matters.
📝 @megan_feringa
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“McAllister and Klaveness represented their countries at times when their nations hardly represented them. McAllister was one of three women to lobby the Welsh FA to formally recognise the women’s national team in 1992.” - @LauraMcAllister
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Laura McAllister was the first person to suggest a boycott at UEFA’s emergency meeting. Lise Klaveness the first to call on next steps.
Women were crucial in the fight vs FIFA. Another example of why having women w/ football backgrounds in high level of governance is so crucial.
The grand announcement was supposed to come on the eve of the World Cup final at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
Gianni Infantino had come up with a plan to sell a stake in FIFA’s competitions to private investors, including Joshua Kushner, the brother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared.
Infantino decided to delay the announcement, which was expected to be rolled out during the past week.
Instead, the news was revealed elsewhere. It threw a grenade into the rollout, which culminated in boycott threats.
FIFA and Infantino have now rowed back on the plan.
This is the inside story of how and why the idea came together, the failed rollout and where this leaves Infantino, with possible challengers seriously considering battling him for his throne.
✍️ @AdamCrafton_, @JamesHorncastle and @megan_feringa
🔗 nyti.ms/4fP3TDY
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UEFA vice president, Professor Laura McAllister told Sky's @RobHarris that the World Cup sell-off plan 'cuts across the very heart of football governance', and questioned if Infantino is the leader that will 'abide by the ethical basis of our sport'
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'Do you have confidence in Gianni Infantino to be the person running world football?' - @RobHarris
'I hope this is a moment of awakening for the FIFA president and for FIFA, and that they take those roles far more seriously' - UEFA Vice President Professor Laura McAllister
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“We were presented with a catastrophic, damaging plan which would threaten the future of football.”
Laura McAllister, UEFA Vice-President, discusses her organisation's potential World Cup boycott and says FIFA’s plans are “existential”.
#Newsnight
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Totally biased but @LauraMcAllister has been absolutely brilliant doing the news rounds today & she is obviously hugely important behind the scenes at UEFA too. We in Wales are lucky to have someone so influential and value driven representing us at the top of world football.
'Do you have confidence in Gianni Infantino to be the person running world football?' - @RobHarris
'I hope this is a moment of awakening for the FIFA president and for FIFA, and that they take those roles far more seriously' - UEFA Vice President Professor Laura McAllister
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The Hiraeth Pod is BACK with the recording of our Debate night with @ThatsDevolved, @Kiera__Marshall and @Owain2026 now hitting the pod feed and YouTube (links below).
We ask 'Is @WelshLabour Dead?' and 'Is @Plaid_Cymru really the Party of Wales?
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More powers for Wales "not credible" @KemiBadenoch, needs evidence to show benefits @SKinnock. Luckily, here's something we prepared earlier, rammed full of specialist evidence, pretty credible I'd say & supported by @LaurenMaeve @shavtaj @AlbertOwen2020: gov.wales/sites/default/file…
One of the reasons why Plaid won the election is because they backed Wales when Labour and Tory didn’t. Lessons to be learnt… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5…
