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Will Hayward - Wales Journo
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Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.

I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.

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Columnist at The Guardian.
Can you imagine how Reform UK would react if a Welsh leader of any other party had been sentenced for 10 years for taking bribes?

Nathan Gill once said he "would never apologise for being patriotic".

Tbf he never said to which country...
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Senior Tory can't name his party's leader in Wales during embarrassing GB News interview...

This Conservative politician was asked 6 times who the Welsh leader of his party is and he couldn't remember.

(It's Darren Millar and he has been in the role for almost a year...)
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly.

Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.

These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Did a bit of TV this morning on BBC Wales looking at how the UK Goverment is actively making decisions that hurt Wales.

TV is well out of my comfort zone. Massive respect to the reporters who do this day in day out.
October 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welsh Labour have genuinely posted this video of their Caerphilly candidate Richard Tunnicliffe on social media.

Turn the sound on. 🔊🔊

It had the caption: "Vote for this total diva on Thursday October 23rd."

I have no idea what to say.
October 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reform have suggested abolishing the Welsh Parliament.
My newsletter was in Caerphilly ahead of a major by-election asking people what they thought about having their parliament taken away...

Wales has voted to have it's own Senedd twice.

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October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Richard Tunnicliffe is the Labour candidate in the Caerphilly.

So a Labour candidate, wants you to vote Labour, to get him elected to a Labour run Senedd, to tell a Labour run council to spend UK Labour provided money to not close libraries that a Labour council are trying to close. Simple.
October 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is Reform's only Senedd Member Laura Anne Jones.

She is very angry about the Wales' Nation of Sanctuary that mainly supports Ukrainian refugees.

However she didn't always feel this way. Here are two speeches she has given where she says opposite things.
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM