Public service standard decline ‘direct result’ of Labour mismanagement - Plaid MS

Responding to today’s IFS report titled ‘Public service spending and performance in Wales’, Plaid Cymru health spokesperson, Mabon ap Gwynfor MS, said:

“This report confirms what people across Wales already know – the state of our NHS and our schools is simply not good enough. After 27 years in power, this decline is the direct result of Labour’s mismanagement, and people have every right to be angry about it.

"Long waits in A&E, patients treated in corridors, cancer patients not receiving treatment on time and waiting lists that remain stubbornly high – these failing standards have been allowed to become normal on Labour’s watch.

"In our schools, Labour has failed to get the basics right. Literacy and numeracy standards have fallen, and too many young people are being let down and denied the opportunities they deserve.

"Wales urgently needs new leadership.
"A Plaid Cymru government would act from day one to turn things around – introducing a new Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Plan to raise standards across Wales and establishing surgical hubs to cut waiting times and expand access to treatment.

"Labour have had their time. Plaid Cymru offers the new leadership Wales needs, with credible, made-in-Wales plans to improve public services and the determination to ensure Wales gets its fair share from Westminster."