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Final Welsh First Minister's Questions a fiery affair ahead of May elections
Labour First Minister of Wales Baroness Eluned Morgan addresses an audience of members and candidates at Newport Market, March 2, 2026

FIRST Minister’s Questions took place for the final time today before the Senedd election on May 7 and produced fiery exchanges.

An innocuous question about the planned nuclear power station on Anglesey saw a feisty Eluned Morgan attack the Welsh Conservative Samuel Kurtz and Reform’s Laura Ann Jones.

Mr Kurtz wanted the FM to acknowledge the role of the previous Conservative Westminster government in commissioning the nuclear plant.

Ms Morgan said: “I can’t believe a Tory is talking to me about what you did for nuclear,” and said people in Wales were promised jobs by the Tories “and you failed to deliver.”

The FM attacked Reform’s Laura Anne Jones for climate change denial after she said her party would not act on ideological net-zero targets in its energy policy for Wales.

Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar and the FM joined forces to denounce Reform’s Nigel Farage for his recent attack on the Welsh language in a paid-for video post.

“The fact is that he will do anything for money, and that is something that he shares with his dear friend US President Donald Trump,” Ms Morgan said.

Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth asked, if the people of Wales decide this is the last session in which a Labour First Minister answers questions, what does Ms Morgan think will have driven that loss of faith in her party’s ability to deliver for Wales?

Ms Morgan said Plaid was being arrogant in thinking it had already won, but said her party had delivered on its programme for government despite the Covid pandemic, Brexit, massive inflation as a result of the Ukraine war, and four prime ministers during that time.

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