Adrian Masters
ITV Cymru Wales political editor who moderated the 2026 Senedd leaders debates.
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Which Welsh leader came out of the ITV debates with the clearest path to coalition influence after 7 May?
Timeline for Adrian Masters
Moderated the 19 April ITV Cymru Wales leaders debate
UK Local Elections 2026: Welsh leaders debates expose immigration paradox- Who is Adrian Masters ITV Wales?
- Adrian Masters is the political editor of ITV Cymru Wales and moderated the 2026 Senedd leaders debates, pressing parties on NHS, immigration, and Coalition scenarios.
- Who is Adrian Masters and what does he do on ITV Wales?
- Adrian Masters is the Political Editor of ITV Cymru Wales, hosting the weekly politics show Sharp End and reporting political stories for Wales at Six. He joined ITV in 2010 after a BBC political correspondence career.Source: ITV News Wales
- What debates did Adrian Masters moderate in the 2026 Senedd campaign?
- Masters moderated the ITV Wales Senedd leaders debates ahead of the 7 May 2026 election, where party leaders including Reform UK's Dan Thomas clashed on immigration, NHS, and Coalition scenarios.Source: Lowdown
Background
Adrian Masters is the Political Editor of ITV Cymru Wales, one of Wales's most experienced broadcast journalists. He moderated the ITV Wales Senedd leaders debates held ahead of the 7 May 2026 Senedd election, pressing party leaders including Reform UK's Dan Thomas on immigration, NHS funding, and Coalition scenarios under the new closed-list PR system.
Masters was born in Newport, Wales, and began his career in commercial radio, including Red Dragon fm, before joining the BBC as a political correspondent where he contributed to programmes including Dragon's Eye, the Welsh edition of the Politics Show, and BBC Radio 4's Yesterday in Parliament. He joined ITV Cymru Wales in 2010 and has since hosted the specialist Thursday politics show Sharp End and reported for Wales at Six. He moderated a high-profile 2016 Brexit debate between First Minister Carwyn Jones and then-UKIP leader Nigel Farage. He has also published a novel, Nothing Has Changed (2017), based on his 2017 general election diaries.
Masters was nominated for Welsh Political Journalist of the Year at the Wales Media Awards (2017) and won Radio Journalist of the Year at the Celtic Film and Television Festival in both 2003 and 2004.
