Steel, tariffs, a new German coalition, farm subsidies, the WI's 100th Welsh annual conference
After parliament was recalled on Saturday to save British Steel's Scunthorpe plant, Alun Davies National Secretary for Steel for Community Union is with us with a Welsh steel worker's reaction. Ian Williams, long time foreign correspondent and author of Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy tells us what the US-Chinese trade war means for the rest of us. Chief Political Editor of DW news Michaela Kuefner explains how and why German politicians made a coalition deal as quickly as possible. Guto Bebb, CEO of the FUW says that changing the way farming subsidies are paid is bad for Welsh agriculture. And Jill Rundle, chair of the national federation of the Women's Institute in Wales talks about all the WIs campaigns. Sarah Jones, Vicar of St John the Baptist church in Cardiff and Cllr George Carroll, leader of the Vale of Glamorgan's conservatives are in the studio to review the papers with our presenter, Vaughan Roderick.
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Trump's tariffs, Welsh Labour rifts, Le Pen and the far right, Welsh Lib Dem conference
Journalist and Trump supporter Steve Merczynski joins us with the American reaction to Trump's tariffs, whilst MediWales' CEO Gwyn Tudor explains how they affect Welsh pharmaceutical exports. Guardian columnist Will Hayward goes through the ins and outs of the relationship between the Welsh Labour government and their UK counterparts. Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds is in the studio after her party's spring conference. Julie Morgan MS and Adam Rees from the Huggard Centre review the papers.
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Welfare cuts, Irish neutrality, assissted dying, constituency names and SLAPPs
Blaenau Gwent MS Alun Davies is in to talk about the effect of welfare changes on his constituents. Emeritus Professor Brigid Laffan analyses Irish neutrality in a changing world. Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville-Roberts discusses the constitutional intricacies of the Assisted Dying Bill. Political commentator Matt Kilcoyne explains why he thinks new constituency names in Wales should be bi-lingual. David Hooper tells us why he wrote his book, Buying Silence, all about Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. Former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and journalist Andy Bell review the Sunday papers.
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12/11/2023
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
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Local Elections special
On the fifth of May we all have the chance to vote for the people we want to run our local council. Four separate elections are going on in the UK - each one with their own political context. But wherever you are it's this vote that decides who runs your local authority, and that means decisions on transport, schools, social services, waste and more. With that in mind, we've dedicated much of the programme to a live round table discussion with candidates from different parts of Wales.
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