Wales denied fairness in Labour’s budget – Plaid Cymru to vote against budget

Labour’s budget denies fairness for Wales, Plaid Cymru has said.

Plaid Cymru’s finance spokesperson Heledd Fychan said that despite repeated promises of change, Wales remains short-changed under Labour – from the £4bn HS2 funding denied by Westminster to Labour’s refusal to grant Wales control over its own natural resources.

Ms Fychan said that the Welsh government budget could have been an opportunity to correct decades of unfairness and to show “real ambition” for Wales but instead continued a pattern of underinvestment in struggling Welsh public services like the NHS and local councils.

She confirmed that her party could not back a budget that fails to meet the scale of the challenges facing the country.

Labour’s final budget