WELSH LABOUR’S top legal minister signalled a U-turn today from the party’s policy of supporting rail devolution to Wales.

“I’m not sure we’re wanting the devolution of it,” said Counsel General and Minister for Delivery Julie James in an interview with BBC Wales.

Welsh Labour’s policy has been to support the devolution of rail, and was sharply critical of the previous Conservative Westminster government’s underfunding of services in Wales.

Ms James’s comments were seized on by Plaid Cymru, which has been making fair funding for Wales a central plank of its election pitch.

Plaid’s transport spokesman Peredur Owen-Griffiths said: “This is an incredible admission from the Minister for Delivery that Labour in Wales don’t, in fact, want to see rail devolved to Wales after all.

“Westminster never has and never will treat us fairly — our rail infrastructure has suffered from decades of neglect, and successive British governments have failed to deliver the fair funding Wales needs to improve its transport network.”