BATTLE LINES for the May Senedd election were rehearsed today in First Minister Questions (FMQs) as members set out what they think are key issues.

Plaid Cymru’s Delyth Jewell, with her party’s strapline of “fair funding for Wales,” asked what progress the Welsh government had made securing the devolution of rail funding.

FM Eluned Morgan rehearsed her pitch to voters, saying: “Compared to the previous Tory government, we’ve secured substantial additional funding from the UK government.

“But we’re very clear that we expect them to go further and we want to receive our fair share of funding.”

Ms Morgan also said that while Welsh Labour wants the devolution of rail, it had to come with the massive investment to make up for 10 years of Tory underfunding.

Ms Jewell said: “We are owed billions more from Westminster because of not just HS2, but the Oxford to Cambridge line and Northern Powerhouse Rail.”

Welsh Conservatives leader Darren Millar reprised former PM David Cameron’s attack line that Offa’s Dyke was the line between life and death.

Mr Millar wanted to know why prostate cancer patients in England could now access the treatment drug Abiraterone, but patients in Wales could not.

The Tory leader also emphasised the delay in cancer treatment times being behind the government’s targets.

The First Minister said the statistics are improving and her government “spends 12 per cent more on health and social care than in England,” saying it was also higher than Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Nationalist leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said the First Minister has claimed that Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford has never been interested in the economy but was more focused on schemes to alleviate poverty.

Ms Morgan said: “There are more people employed in Wales today than there were last year, and the reason I want to see a growth in the economy in Wales is precisely because I want to tackle poverty.”

Mr ap Iorwerth said: “The truth is that Labour have been hiding behind blaming the Tories for a decade and more, and now they have no wriggle room.”

Plaid Caerphilly by-election victor Lindsay Whittle asked what action the Welsh government was taking to tackle the corridor care crisis in the NHS.

Ms Morgan said: “None of us want to see our loved ones being treated in corridors, and we’ve made it clear that it’s not something that is acceptable to the Welsh government.”