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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
But crime is crime, isn't it?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
How do you think they manage to get consistency between England and Scotland?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Well, I hope they’re not going to be there for long.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
I’m grateful to you for taking an intervention. We’re talking here about powers that are already devolved. Policing, for example, is not only devolved to Northern Ireland and to Scotland, but even cities in England. Why do you think that we are incapable as a…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Will you take an intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
The Government amendment confirms what Plaid Cymru has always pointed to as the main difference between ourselves and Labour in Wales: that when it comes to fairness and ambition for Wales, they will more often than not choose to dilute our asks and dampen…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
There is a great deal that we can agree with in the Government's amendment. Yes, the chaos of the previous Conservative Government has left real challenges in terms of the public purse, and, yes, there's a need for Governments in Wales and Westminster to work…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Much has been made of having two Labour Governments working side by side. I’ll be the first to welcome co-operation, certainly. Labour promised change, including a change in the relationship between Welsh and UK Governments. It was long overdue. But the warm…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. This motion was tabled in the midst of the general election campaign, an election where Plaid Cymru put an uncompromising emphasis on the priorities of Wales and put Wales's interests first. The fact that that message has…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
We in Plaid Cymru are clear on the types of things that we do think that a devolved Government should seek to deliver for Wales. We will outline many of these between now and May 2026: securing economic development based on ambitious targets; a real strategy…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
We are now in a regrettable position where there's more to be said about what's been dropped from the Government's legislative programme than what is in it: post-Brexit environmental governance arrangements that have long been in place in other nations of the…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
When he became First Minister back in March, he outlined his ambition to deliver positive and innovative change, and we on these benches were willing to promote that vision, in a way, and to work constructively with Government to deliver it. After all…
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Questions to the First Minister
The First Minister didn't answer my question on the £3 billion and what share of that will come to steel in Wales; perhaps he can come back to that point. But I'll finish with health. The new health Secretary in England had barely set foot in the department…
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Questions to the First Minister
Many people listening to that will regret that a Welsh First Minister is not demanding that fairness for Wales and those decisions on funding around HS2. And to have a First Minister saying that he's happy to have a manifesto implemented that did not promise…
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Questions to the First Minister
I have written to the new Prime Minister congratulating him, and I know the four Plaid Cymru MPs will hold him and his new Government firmly but constructively to account. We've already heard a lot from the Prime Minister about his wish to reset the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much. I want to start by congratulating all of the MPs who were elected in Wales last week, and I wish them well in representing communities in Wales. Wales stated its opinion very clearly on 14 years of Conservative Government, but there was a…
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Questions to the First Minister
It's the lack of promises for Wales that stands out so much in this election, if I might say. We know that the failure to deliver on any one of those issues that I mentioned that the First Minister ignored, let alone ignoring all of them, would represent a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Indeed, the First Minister has spoken many times of his hopes for a more constructive relationship between the Welsh and UK Governments should Labour enter Downing Street on Friday. I'm sure the First Minister would be making an early call to Sir Keir, the…
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Questions to the First Minister
The political history of Wales for nearly 30 years is one of saying ‘yes’: ‘yes’ to having our own Parliament in 1997, a big ‘yes’ to giving it some proper teeth in 2011. ‘Yes’ because we saw that we can achieve so much more given the tools to do the job…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. I’m a politician who likes to emphasise the positives in terms of the future of Wales. I say ‘yes’ to a fairer, more prosperous future and we have said ‘yes’ for decades now as a nation.
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Questions to the First Minister
Listen, Sir Keir Starmer will become Prime Minister regardless of how Wales votes. We need to make sure that we have people in Westminster who will stand up for the interests of the people of Wales. Anybody who acknowledges the cruelty of the two-child cap…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, somebody's got to speak up for Wales, because it's certainly not Labour MPs, by the sounds of it. It is very difficult to make the case for consequentials for a project that the Labour spokesperson for Wales believes doesn't exist, for starters. There's…
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Questions to the First Minister
Sir Keir uses the word 'change' a lot, doesn't he, and, God knows, we need to get rid of this UK Government. But the Institute for Fiscal Studies gives us grounds to believe that change could be little more than a campaign slogan when it comes to the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. We're within a week and a little bit to the general election. We can be quite sure that Sir Keir will be the next Prime Minister, but it's not as clear what will happen afterwards.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Nuclear
The people of Anglesey deserve better than to see the Conservatives playing political games with Wylfa. Plaid Cymru will continue to insist on investment in order to help our communities to prosper.
