Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:48 pm on 22 May 2018.
So, these levers exist, yet you don't want to have control over them. You talk of strategies, and you bemoan the Tories' welfare policies, while your only real action is to cut the benefits under the responsibility of your own Government: school uniform grant, cut; independent living grant, cut; the education improvement grant, cut; Communities First, cut. A third of Welsh children are living in poverty, thousands rely on food banks for a decent meal, and this is the best that you can do. First Minister, I've got a simple question: are you willing to take responsibility or are you happy to just carry on blaming the Tories in Westminster?