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Landlords are not the enemy: How the private rented sector can be a force for good
Written by Calum Davies is the Welsh Policy & Public Affairs Officer for the National Residential Landlords Association: Landlords have not had an easy ride in the media recently. Coronavirus has put pressure on incomes, leading to calls for rent reductions or...
Drastic action must be enacted sooner rather than later to take Wales off life support
Article written by CWS Board Adviser, Monima O'Connor:Why does the Welsh Government not understand Small and Medium sized businesseswhich are the lifeblood of our Principality? Is it because most Government MS’scome to Cardiff Bay from the richly rewarded public...
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Internship x2 (Comms and Research) (16 hours per week) The Centre for Welsh Studies was founded in early 2017, with the intention of changing the political landscape in Wales, after witnessing the disparity of views between those representing the people and the views...
The Government’s draconian measures can’t last forever
Article written by CWS Board Adviser Adrian Mason who is also is Deputy Chair (Political) of North Wales Conservatives and a Constitutional lawyer. Those of us who are either medics or lawyers have long since learnt that you do not say what you do for a living at a...
War on obesity: Nanny state meddling? Or overdue action?
This long read was put together by CWS Director, Matthew MacKinnon & CWS Chief Operations Officer, Edward Sumner: There is clearly a problem with obesity in the UK and across the world, this problem has been growing decade upon decade and after various campaigns...
Securing the Union and delivering for Wales
An article written by Cardiff Councillor and Prospective Senedd Member for Cardiff North - Joel Williams: I may regret saying this on the record… but I do agree with Tony Blair- albeit on only on a fewthings. One of those things is his apparent desires for...
CWS Summer Statement Response
On Wednesday we saw a new economic package unveiled, the size of which we have not seen before in this country. Rishi Sunak has announced a package worth 30bn for the UK, of which Welsh Government will get an extra 500m, this is on top of the 2.8bn extra given to the...
4 Day Week Long Read
Since Covid-19 struck and the UK went into lockdown, many have been discussing the ‘new normal’ and various campaign groups in Wales have begun pushing for a new raft of new policies to be implemented, such as Universal Basic Income and the four day working week....
Will 2021 see the rise of the Welsh free marketeers?
Politics in Wales is starting to see a seismic shift in the political landscape for the first time in decades. 2019 saw the largest group of free market supporting MPs elected since 1983 across Wales, with the vast majority of gains coming from former Labour...