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Rhun ap Iorwerth tells LSE event that growing Welsh firms and strengthening local ownership are key to long-term growth and economic resilience.

At Welsh Labour’s campaign launch on Monday, Senedd Member for Mid & West Wales Eluned Morgan made clear that if Welsh Labour is returned to power in May, the party will back a major new hospital development in West Wales as part of a £4 billion Hospitals for the Future Fund.

Both Reform and the Conservatives offered uncosted plans for reducing income tax and building the multi-billion pound M4 relief road.

The Campaign group PARC Against DARC which was launched in 2024 in opposition to the proposed US military radar installation at Brawdy is calling for a ‘County wide response’ to the official consultation on DARC Radar. 

“Our plans to unleash Wales’ economy will breathe new life into communities like Port Talbot” – Rhun ap Iorwerth

Labour have rejected Plaid Cymru’s Senedd motion calling for the full devolution of rail infrastructure. Plaid Cymru has long called for the devolution of rail infrastructure to allow Wales to make decisions on investment in its own transport networks and to stop future scandals, such as HS2, to develop.

A memorial plinth will make its home in Kyiv to honour of Gareth Jones, the Welsh journalist from Barry who risked his life to expose the Holodomor famine which killed millions in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.

‘Wales can’t afford the cost of Reform’ - Plaid Cymru 
Liz Saville Roberts brands Reform as ‘Trump’s cheerleaders’ during Wales Questions.

Local Senedd Members Paul Davies MS and Samuel Kurtz MS have criticised Welsh Labour’s renewed pledge to deliver a new hospital for West Wales, describing the proposal as a “desperate pre-election distraction” from immediate pressures facing local health services

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Responding to Welsh Labour's campaign launch, a Plaid Cymru spokesperson said,
“This is tired stuff from a party that has been in power in Wales for almost 30 years and has long run out of ideas. The people of Wales won’t be buying it.