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Leading the way on social partnership in Wales
MICK ANTONIW explains how Welsh Labour is pursuing a policy of constructive participation and engagement that could become an exemplar for the rest of the UK
The Welsh Parliament or Senedd [Julian Nyca/Creative Commons]

THE Covid pandemic has exposed the gross inequalities in our society that have increased year on year over several decades, accelerating over the past 10 years of Tory austerity.

During the years of the Blair government, Welsh Labour decided to distance itself from some of the more centrist polices by adopting a more radical and socialist “clear red water” agenda. 

The strategy was devised by Mark Drakeford, then an adviser to first minister Rhodri Morgan. Mark, of course, is now first minister of Wales.

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