Editing Capital of Wales (section)

===Recognition of Cardiff===
The government of the Labour Prime Minister, [[Clement Attlee]], had not named a capital of Wales during his government. Attlee noted that a number of cities made claims to the status, and that the [[Council for Wales and Monmouthshire]] did not raise what he considered to be a "domestic issue" with the Government.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1950/jun/13/capital-city |title=Capital City (Hansard, 13 June 1950) |website=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |date=13 June 1950 |access-date=20 December 2018}}</ref> In his inaugural speech as Lord Mayor of Cardiff, George Williams argued that Cardiff should be considered the capital of Wales.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1950-06-13a.23.5 |title=Capital City: 13 Jun 1950: House of Commons debates |website=TheyWorkForYou |language=en |access-date=20 December 2018}}</ref> [[David Llewellyn (British politician)|David Llewellyn]] was elected MP for [[Cardiff North (UK Parliament constituency)|Cardiff North]] in 1950 and also campaigned for recognising Cardiff. Campaigning for Cardiff stepped up and the city took steps to promote its 'Welshness'. The stalemate over which city should be the new capital was broken when Cardiganshire County Council decided to support Cardiff and, in a 1955 poll of local authorities, 134 out of 161 voted for the city.<ref name="Johnes 2012" />

On 20 December 1955, [[Gwilym Lloyd-George]], then [[Minister for Welsh Affairs]] and [[Home Secretary]], proclaimed that Cardiff was the capital of Wales, in a reply to a [[Parliamentary question]] from David Llewellyn. Lloyd-George said that "no formal measures are necessary to give effect to this decision"<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1955/dec/20/capital-of-principality-cardiff Hansard 20 December 1955 vol 547 cc310-1W]</ref> The ''[[Encyclopedia of Wales]]'' says that the decision to recognise the city as the capital of Wales "had more to do with the fact that it contained marginal [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] constituencies than any reasoned view of what functions a Welsh capital should have".