Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:45 pm on 22 May 2018.
First Minister, you are the Government of Wales and you can take responsibility. You can lift people out of poverty, yet you are choosing not to. Your Ministers claim that the devolution of welfare administration would undermine the social union of the UK. Now, putting aside the fact that every other Government in the UK has power to administer welfare, does he think this reckless undermining of the social union is what has driven calls for the devolution of welfare from the Institute for Public Policy Research, Shelter Cymru, the Assembly's cross-party equalities committee, the Bevan Foundation, the Trussell Trust, the Scottish Labour Party, the Scottish Liberal Democrat Party, the UK Labour Party, the Labour mayor of Manchester—and there are many more? Do you think all of these are divisive nationalists, seeking to undermine the social union?