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Podcast: Hiraeth - Welsh Politics
Episode: Clear Red Water: The battle of the 'One Wales' conference
Description: 2007 was the year that everything changed for the governments of the UK. In England, Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister after an unprecedented series of electoral wins for Labour, in Scotland the SNP were forming their first government as a minority in Holyrood, in Northern Ireland the institutional 'moderate' unionists were being supplanted by the DUP, and in Wales the traditions of nationalism and socialism were about to combine to form the 'One Wales' government of Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru.
For Plaid Cymru, the opportunity to go into government for the first time was a relatively easy decision...