<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:46 pm on 6 June 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:46, 6 June 2017

Isn’t it a shame that he will not support a situation where Wales gets the funding it deserves? Isn’t it a shame? It tells really of the way that they think. Isn’t it a shame that he was not there to make these points in such a good debate on television? You know, I’m sure that it was possible to see a live broadcast from Gran Canaria to make sure that his view was put forward as somebody who claims to be the leader of the Welsh Conservatives. As he rightly said, the Secretary of State was unwilling to take part in the third debate—because he pulled out because I was in it. That’s what we heard. He was not willing to come and debate—and other leaders as well—and to put forward the Conservative case. He has some brass neck to come before this Chamber and say that somehow things are a shambles on these benches when, on three different occasions, the Tories couldn’t even field the same person in three different debates, so lacking in confidence were they in their own case. We’ve seen over the past few days shambles after shambles after shambles in the Conservative party. I invite him to read the UK Labour manifesto, where it’s absolutely clear, where it says that there will be a new funding formula that reflects the needs of different nations and regions of the UK—a commitment we have made; a commitment his party has run from.