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The Welsh government needs be ambitious when it comes to jobs, not just hope for the market to deliver, says Wales TUC leader SHAVANAH TAJ

THE Senedd election results showed Wales’s growing electoral divergence from England.
The new Welsh Labour government should now use its mandate to accelerate policy divergence from Westminster too.
The First Minister should feel emboldened to use the political capital that he’s won to reshape the Welsh economy in a way that provides real results for working people.
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