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Friday, 25 May, 2001, 16:53 GMT 17:53 UK
Welsh fail to catch election fever
Two years since votes were cast for the Welsh assembly, what effect is devolution having on the general election campaign?

General election or not it's business as usual at the Welsh Assembly even if assembly members have gone home for the weekend.

PM asks why election fever has failed to materialise in Wales.

Click on the link on the left to hear Jon Manel's report on the distinctive shape of the campaign in Wales.

Nigel Wrench speaks to the Welsh commentator Peter Stead, and Dafydd Trystan from the University of Aberyrstwyth's Institute of Welsh Politics.

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PM's Jon Manel reports
On how the Welsh are responding to the general election
Nigel Wrench in Cardiff
speaks to Dafydd Trystan and Peter Stead

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