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Podcast: Hiraeth - Welsh Politics
Episode: Petitions, Conferences, Senedd Reform, and Chwarae Teg
Description: We are a month into a new political season like no other. There has been an enormously popular petition against legislation that previously appeared to have wide cross-party support, and resultantly Wales may now be more visible than ever in the next UK-wide election. It has also challenged the concept of democratic legitimacy in our representative democracy as the minister responsible found himself in the unusual position of facing a vote of no confidence because he *had* delivered on a manifesto commitment.
The launchpads for that very election are the party conferences, which are up and running while the union...