British five pound, ten pound, twenty pound and fifty pound notes with one pound coins, January 26, 2018
THE Welsh government is facing its “starkest and most painful financial situation faced since the start of devolution,” it said today.
Ministers were responding to a critical report from the Senedd’s cross-party finance committee, warning that Wales’s most vulnerable people will be hit by cuts to the funding of free childcare and other front-line services.
The committee, comprising two Labour members, one from Plaid Cymru and one Tory, said that the Budget came “at the expense of long-term measures to reduce poverty [and] will lead to a serious shortfall for local authorities, which will impact the services they deliver and hit the most vulnerable in society worst.”
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
JACKIE OWEN and DYLAN LEWIS-ROWLANDS argue that Welsh Labour conference this weekend is the be-all and end-all moment if Labour wants to avoid a rout at next year’s election
