by David Nicholson

WELSH Labour leader Mark Drakeford pledged yesterday to create a new medical school in north Wales and boost the region’s environment and cultural sectors as part of a multibillion-pound investment.

Mr Drakeford was speaking during a visit to Wrexham with British Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer during campaigning for May’s Senedd election.

“We have set aside a £15 billion capital investment programme, which we will use to create jobs right across north Wales and the rest of the country,” said Mr Drakeford.

“We have an ambitious plan to recover from the pandemic and to rebuild fairer, leaving no-one behind as we move north Wales forward.”

He pledged to create jobs through a new national park in the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley and to develop new tidal and wave energy across the region.

The package of measures also includes plans for a new medical school in north Wales, a football museum in Wrexham, a £25 million redevelopment of Theatr Clwyd and support for the slate landscape of north-west Wales to be listed by Unesco as a world heritage site.