We continue our season of Welsh Politics Q & A pods with a debate about the merits of political parties parachuting candidates into constituencies, especially in short election campaigns as we infamously saw from Labour in Cardiff West (Alex Barros-Curtis) and Swansea West (Torsten Bell) in the 2024 UK election.

We also discuss the absence of progress on developing north-south links inside Wales during the period of devolution.

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Your hosts:

Prof Laura McAllister of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, former national football team captain and Vice President at UEFA

Lauren McEvatt, political commentator and former Conservative Special Advisor to the Wales Office in UK Govt

Lee Waters, Labour Party Member of the Senedd for Llanelli and former Welsh Govt Minister

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Produced by Richard Martin for Mimosa Cymru

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