It has been a longstanding gripe of the Welsh that they exist on the political as well as geographic fringe of the UK. A debate on BBC Radio Wales at the start of the year seemed to offer proof of this complaint: here were the senior figures from the major Welsh political parties (except Reform UK), having it out in the first formal, official debate before May’s Senedd election – theoretically one of the most significant domestic political events of the year. And not a soul in Westminster appeared to notice.
