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Welsh Tory leader warns his party to adapt or die
Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, makes a speech on the steps of the Senedd as farmers protested over planned changes to farming subsidies, February 28, 2024

CHANGE or die, the Welsh Conservative leader told his party conference in Birmingham today.

Andrew Davies also said the party should apologise for not keeping immigration promises and called for “zero tolerance.”

Mr Davies spoke on the opening day of the first gathering of Tory politicians and activists since July’s election defeat, when the party was reduced to 121 MPs, and lost all of its representatives in Wales.

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