Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:37 pm on 9 May 2017.
Well, according to last week, it’s him. He was talking about the need for leadership, he was talking about himself. We will happily stand up for Wales. We don’t want to see a future Conservative Government walk all over Wales. And we have stood up for our people, as the election last year showed, and, indeed, in 2011. The reality is—and he is right to point out the cuts that have taken place—we have lost, since 2010, the equivalent of the entire budget for health in the whole of north Wales. Despite that, we’ve maintained health spending at 1 per cent above the level in England per head, and maintained health and social care spending at 6 per cent per head higher than in England, showing a Welsh Labour Government delivering for the people of Wales in the face of Tory austerity.