Rhun ap Iorwerth: Plaid Cymru is ready to ‘lead the charge’ in Wales
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<p>Leader launches ‘roadmap’ of first 100 days in power to show party is ready to govern if it wins Senedd elections</p><p>The leader of Plaid Cymru has described the prospect of leading the next government in Wales as “a heck of a task” but that he senses voters are increasingly driven by their Welsh identity and may be ready for Britain to be “redesigned”.</p><p>Speaking to the Guardian as he published a glossy 60-page “roadmap” for his party’s first 100 days in g
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Plaid Cymru (English: plyde KUM-ree, Welsh: [plaid ˈkəmrɨ]; lit. 'Party of Wales', officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales. It campaigns on a platform of social democracy and civic nationalism, ...
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Rhun ap Iorwerth: Plaid Cymru is ready to ‘lead the charge’ in Wales Leader launches ‘roadmap’ of first 100 days in power to show party is ready to govern if it wins Senedd elections The leader of Plaid Cymru has described the prospect of leading the next government in Wales as “a heck of a task” but that he senses voters are increasingly driven by their Welsh identity and may be ready for Britain to be “redesigned”. Speaking to the Guardian as he published a glossy 60-page “roadmap” for his party’s first 100 days in government, if it takes power in May, Rhun ap Iorwerth said he was ready to lead the devolved administration in Cardiff but would work with other parties if he did not win a majority. Ap Iorwerth said publishing the document at his party’s spring conference in Newport, south-east Wales , did not show he was complacent about this spring’s Senedd (Welsh parliament) elections, but that he was ready for power. “We want to persuade people of the seriousness with which we’re approaching the business of preparing for government,” he said. “It most certainly isn’t complacency. I argue it’s the opposite of that. If we’re asking people to put their trust in us, we have to show them that we’re ready to start repaying that trust immediately.” Ap Iorwerth said he felt daunted but in a positive way. “I think it would be strange if I didn’t feel: ‘Wow this is a heck of a task’, because if we win this election we would be taking on board the legacy of decades of missed opportunities and the pressure of wanting to get things right.” The roadmap focuses on five topics: cutting hospital waiting lists, tackling the cost of living crisis, boosting the economy, improving standards in school and easing child poverty. There is no sharp focus on independence – a fundamental Plaid aspiration – but ap Iorwerth suggested the idea was implicit in its promises to “resettle” Wales’s relationship with the UK government. He said: “Independence is a word that I’m happy to use. The conce...
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