Will Hayward and Andrew Davies: Who Cares About Wales?
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Come and join Will and Andrew for what will be a fascinating discussion.
In his new book, Who Cares About Wales?, Will Hayward takes a deep dive into the major issues facing the country. Covering sectors such as housing, transport, social care, education, environment and farming, he shows us exactly what’s been going on, forensically dissecting how Wales is financed and demonstrating plainly why the current set-up just can’t work.
Will Hayward is a multi-award winning investigative journalist based in Cardiff. He is a regular columnist for the Guardian and often appears as a political commentator on Times Radio, the BBC, BBC Wales, Sky News and LBC – he is widely acknowledged as probably the leading voice on Welsh politics. Will specialises in long-form investigations into Welsh issues and is the only regional journalist to have been nominated more than once for UK Political Journalist of the Year, alongside the likes of Robert Peston and Pippa Crerar. He has lectured in Public Administration at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, and is also the author of two previous books, Lockdown Wales: How Covid-19 Tested Wales (Seren, 2020) and Independent Nation: Should Wales Leave the UK? (Biteback Publishing, 2022). His newsletter, the Will Hayward Newsletter, was named Best Politics Newsletter at the publisher awards.
Andrew Davies was a minister for the first ten years of the Welsh government, including as minister for economic development, 2002–07. He was the assembly member for Swansea West from 1999–2011. In 2007 Davies became Minister for Social Justice and Public Service Delivery in the Labour led minority government. In the coalition government of Labour and Plaid Cymru, Davies was appointed Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery. He left the cabinet following the Welsh Labour leadership election in 2009 and stood down as an Assembly Member at the 2011 election. He later became Chairman of Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board in South Wales from 2013 until 2019.