School closures. Since 2006, we’ve seen 157 school closures under a Welsh Labour Government—60 per cent of these rural. Plaid Cymru-led Ceredigion has seen 20 rural school closures; eight in Gwynedd and six in Conwy. And under the independents in Powys, 18. Many of these overlooking the consultation process returns, just going ahead mobhanded. As a final point, our amendment calls for the direct funding for schools, cutting out the waste, the inefficiency and the bureaucracy of another tier that simply absorbs more in administration, taking away from our children in their own classrooms. The Welsh Conservatives will continue to fight to ensure that all children have the opportunity to realise their own full potential.

So, tomorrow, our voters will not be thanking Labour or Plaid Cymru for continuing service cuts, tax hikes and the destruction of our—