Hayley: Virgin Voter

Hayley Pearce gets a crash course in Welsh politics to better understand how her vote at the forthcoming Senedd elections can truly make a difference.

Hayley is a 'virgin voter'; she knows almost nothing about politics and has never voted in her life. She openly admits to having ‘absolute ignorance’ on the subject – but she is not stupid, it’s just that, until now, she’s never been interested enough to care. In this election, though, she pledges to change her ways and get involved.

Heading off on a spending road trip across Wales, Hayley attempts to get to the bottom of how some of our roughly £17 billion annual budget is spent and grills a host of experts to ask unashamedly basic questions. Hayley puts together her own imaginary budget and discovers that if she was in charge of the purse strings, she’d quickly run out of cash.