PLAID CYMRU leader Rhun ap Iorwerth will attack the Conservative party in Westminster in his party conference speech today.

Mr ap Iorwerth will highlight the Tory’s funding cuts to Wales, saying that they have taken out “£1 billion from the Welsh economy due to welfare cuts.”

He is addressing his party conference in Aberystwyth for the first time since becoming leader in July.

Adam Price stepped down as party leader after a report found misogyny, bullying and harassment in the party had not been dealt with.

The nationalist leader will also turn his sights on Home Secretary Suella Braverman and her recent speeches on migrants.

Mr ap Iorwerth will say: “While it takes Ms Braverman to turn her back on people fleeing some of the most desperate places on Earth, it takes a far braver man or woman to embrace those in need with the decency and compassion so lacking in this Conservative Cabinet.

“If ever there was a reminder that sometimes we must do the right thing, not the easy thing, it is the heartbreaking images of children on dangerously crowded boats, clinging on to their parents as they cling on to life itself.”

He will also attack the post-Brexit settlement for Wales and former prime minister Boris Johnson’s broken promises.

“The great Brexit betrayal — no share of the promised £350 million a week for the NHS, no pound-for-pound support for Welsh farmers, and a £772m hole in the funding which supported some of our most deprived communities,” the Plaid leader will say.