Posts Tagged ‘Nick Bourne AM’

What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

One of the longest serving Conservatives in the National Assembly makes his case for a new name for his party in Wales, as a signal of a new and greater ambition

The bittersweet symphony

The bittersweet symphony

Where do the Welsh Conservatives go from here?

Welsh Conservative public spending priorities

Welsh Conservative public spending priorities

The Welsh Conservatives last week took the unexpected step of releasing details of how they would have costed Welsh Assembly Government spending. Here, their leader explains the logic behind their budget

More Conservative front bench changes

More Conservative front bench changes

Just when you think everything is settled and all the Welsh Conservatives in the Assembly are a happy and united team again, a spanner is thrown in the works.

Breaking News – Welsh Conservative reshuffle

Breaking News – Welsh Conservative reshuffle

Jonathan, Darren and Nick Bourne himself are winners in today’s Welsh Conservative reshuffle – but the biggest winner may well be the Welsh Conservative Party as a whole

The authentic radical

The authentic radical

The Conservative leader in the Assembly reviews a former Labour luminary’s take on the life of a great Liberal – and arguably Wales’ greatest statesman of the 20th Century

The change maker

The change maker

Nick Bourne has been a consistently prominent figure in Assembly business for over a decade and his story in Welsh public life is one of the most interesting that can be told

The Spending Review is challenging, but WAG can meet the challenge

The Spending Review is challenging, but WAG can meet the challenge

The doom mongers in Labour and Plaid have been proved wrong: the CSR will deliver for Wales and invests in our future rather than the bills of past failure

Progressive government and the next challenge for devolution

Progressive government and the next challenge for devolution

A month in to the new UK government, Wales’ leading Conservatives rates progress that has been made and argues that a watershed in British politics has been reached which will benefit Wales

What next for the Conservatives?

What next for the Conservatives?

The Welsh Conservatives are the main opposition in the National Assembly and, by sheer number of Members of Parliament, in May 2010 recaptured the role of the second party of Welsh politics. Yet where they go from here is not necessarily easy to navigate.

Today it’s make your mind up time for the Liberal Democrats

Today it’s make your mind up time for the Liberal Democrats

With power sharing talks at Westminster nearing ‘crunch time’, Welsh Conservative Assembly leader Nick Bourne says we’ve seen it all before in Wales.

John Marek – in his own words

John Marek – in his own words

SPEAKING at a press conference in Wrexham, Dr John Marek issued the following statement: “Today I am joining a party which has changed, which has ideas, energy and vision, and which is serious about changing this country’s fortunes after 13 years of Labour failure. The Labour Party and I parted company shortly after Tony Blair [...]