Plaid Cymru
Political Party
AMs Jenny Randerson and Leanne Wood face up to horror of domestic abuse" The AMs who participated were Labour's Joyce Watson, Plaid Cymru's Nerys Evans, Leanne Wood, Janet Ryder and Helen Mary Jones, and Liberal Democrats Kirsty Williams, the party's leader in Wales, and Eleanor Burnham. Conservative... In this article: Leanne Wood, Plaid Cymru, Labour, Nerys Evans, Joyce Watson, Helen Mary Jones, and Janet Ryder |
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Wales Online | 3 days ago
Carwyn Jones says what he would do as Labour leader
...Government of Wales Act. I have already made clear my commitment to campaigning for a Yes vote on law-making powers for Wales, in the referendum promised in our One Wales coalition agreement with Plaid Cymru. I have also made it clear that...
In this article: Welsh Labour, Wales, UK, Coal, Tax, and Carbon
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BBC News | November 17, 2009
Tourist businesses VAT cut call
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Daily Mail | October 31, 2009
HSBC set to unleash a new wave of branch closures
...take seriously their social responsibilities.' Leanne Wood, a Plaid Cymru member of the National Assembly for Wales, has condemned the HSBC closures in Ferndale, Rhondda, and Rhiwbina, Cardiff. She told Financial Mail: 'HSBC advertises itself...
In this article: HSBC, Barclays, Small business, Federation of Small Businesses, Michael Geoghegan, and Leanne Wood
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Wales Online | November 16, 2009
'Your Government has been doing things in health and education which are independent and innovative'
...a successful referendum would bring to Wales. Labour and Plaid Cymru formed a coalition Government in 2007 with the goal of working towards a referendum by the end of Assembly term in 2011. Constitutional expert Alan Trench of Edinburgh...
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Wales Online | November 17, 2009
Charity calls for youth justice to be devolved
...for the 21st century, the charity said. Although devolution of justice and policing in its entirety has long been advocated by Plaid Cymru, today's development is significant as an organisation with a UK-wide remit, albeit only examining...
In this article: Howard League for Penal Reform, Wales, Ministry of Justice, Elfyn Llwyd, and UK
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Wales Online | 2 days ago
Welsh councils set to get back just 80% of Icelandic money
...of its GBP15m investment in Iceland just weeks before the banks went into administration has been the subject of serious criticism, the Plaid Cymru council leader Lindsay Whittle hailed news that most of the money will be recovered as a...
In this article: Lindsay Whittle, Ernst and Young, Caerphilly, Wales, Iceland, South Wales Police, and Landsbanki
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Wales Online | November 10, 2009
Lewis claims to be the leader among Labour members
...Presiding Officer Lord Elis- Thomas. The Plaid Cymru peer advised Labour Party members who attended a meeting of the Welsh people's history society Llafur on Sunday to vote for Mrs Hart, it emerged. The 30 Valleys councillors backing Mr...
In this article: Welsh Labour, Huw Lewis, Edwina Hart, Wales, Child poverty, and Labour Party
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Wales Online | November 17, 2009
All Wales Convention in favour of extra powers for Assembly
The Convention - established by Labour and Plaid Cymru to assess support for new law-making powers in Wales - found that while only 37% of people said they would vote against new powers in a referendum, just 47% would vote Yes. The...
In this article: Wales, Labour, and Climate change
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Wales Online | November 17, 2009
Rather than being on a spike Wales lies in the economic lowlands
...to be welcomed, the nature of policy formulation and the rather hastily written feel of the One Wales document produced by Labour and Plaid Cymru highlights the extent to which the economic future of Wales is at the mercy of political...
In this article: Wales, WAG, UK, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Labour, Thomas Friedman, and Europe
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Plaid Cymru (; The Party of Wales; often referred to simply as Plaid) is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union.
Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966. Plaid Cymru has 1 of 4 Welsh seats in the European Parliament, 3 of 40 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament, 15 of 60 seats in the National Assembly for Wales, where it is the junior partner in the coalition government with the Welsh Labour Party and 205 of 1,264 principal local authority councillors. According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year of 2004, the party has an income and expenditure of about £500,000.
- Name:
- Plaid Cymru — The Party of Wales
- Headquarters:
- Wales
- Head:
- Ieuan Wyn Jones
- Colors:
- Yellow
- Ideology:
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- Social Democracy
- Welsh nationalism
- Welsh independence
- Democratic socialism
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