These are the Vale of Glamorgan candidates:
Janet Deborah Brocklehurst, Propel: Wales Needs Champions
Alan Terence Coulthard, Independent
Richard Rhys Grigg, Plaid Cymru
Michael Lindsay Hancock, Reform UK
Jane Elizabeth Hutt, Welsh Labour
Karl-James Langford, Gwlad – The Welsh Independence Party
Neill Vasudeo Shah, Freedom Alliance. No Lockdowns. No Curfews.
Anthony David Slaughter, Green Party
Matt Smith, Welsh Conservative The Police and Crime Commissioner election will also take place on May 6. These are the South Wales candidates for Police and Crime Commissioner :
Mike Baker, Independent
Gail Moyra John, Propel: Wales Needs Champions
Callum James Littlemore, Welsh Liberal Democrats – Put Recovery First
Shadow Chancellor visits Hartlepool and calls on Government to safeguard Liberty Steel jobs
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The Northern Independence Party (NIP) may have begun life as a Twitter joke, but those still scoffing would do well to learn from recent history. Italy’s Five Star Movement erupted into political life on the back of a comedian’s blog, before flipping Italian politics on its head. The Brexit Party, founded in 2018, was a hollow shell but transformed British politics in the short time of its existence (it was renamed Reform UK in January 2021). Both were helped by money and, crucially, more representative electoral systems than first-past-the-post. But as Paolo Gerbaudo argues in his 2018 book
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