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A plan for the renewal of Wales
Wales reporter David Nicholson talks to Morning Star columnist and Plaid Cymru economy spokesman LUKE FLETCHER ahead of the unveiling of his economic strategy for Wales
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LUKE FLETCHER has been an elected member of the Senedd for just four years but his party’s hopes for electoral victory in next year’s election rest on his shoulders as he gets ready to publish Plaid’s economic strategy for Wales.
Fletcher is due to unveil the economic strategy he has been working on for a number of years now at Plaid’s conference in Llandudno tomorrow with the details to be published in a few months’ time.
We started by talking about his political influences when he grew up in Pencoed in the county borough of Bridgend in South Wales.
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