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Glastonbury looms large at First Minister’s Questions
Crowds watch Kneecap performing on the West Holts Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, June 28, 2025

GLASTONBURY and welfare cuts for the disabled loomed large at First Minister’s Questions today in the Senedd.

Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar was incensed by the performances of Bob Vylan and Kneecap at the weekend music festival and claimed it had made Jewish people in Wales feel unsafe.

Mr Millar asked Eluned Morgan to say if she backed the Westminster government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action (PA).

The FM said she has been appalled by the appalling scenes in Gaza and said she condemns anybody taking illegal action.

The Tory leader said thousands at Glastonbury had chanted: “From the river to the sea” and this had been repeated outside the Senedd today at a demonstration attended by her party’s and Plaid Cymru Senedd members.

Plaid leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said the FM had pledged to restore trust in politics when she was elected Labour leader, but he claimed Secretary of State for Wales Jo Stevens had told a lie in her speech at the weekend’s party conference.

“You are obsessed with my party and our conference. You should have stuck with your Plan A and stood for Westminster,” Ms Morgan said.

“I’ll remind the baroness that she still has a seat at Westminster,” the Plaid leader said to laughing MSs.

Mr ap Iorwerth also wanted to know if the First Minister had arranged for an impact assessment of Sir Keir Starmer’s welfare reforms, as she now supported the government’s U-turn. 

“I do not understand why the Plaid leader does not ask me about matters that I have some control over,” the FM said.

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