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Plaid leader promises a new weekly child benefit payment in Wales
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth launches his party's General Election manifesto in Marble Hall, at The Temple of Peace in Cardiff, Wales, June 13, 2024

WELSH nationalist leader Rhun ap Iorwerth promised that his government would introduce a weekly payment to tackle child poverty in Wales as he addressed Plaid Cymru’s spring conference today.

“There’s a lot that Wales can be proud of,” he said. “But there remains a national stain, an indelible mark on communities the length and breadth of our country and that’s poverty, and child poverty in particular.

“It’s unforgivable that so many of our children go without the basics.

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