Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 2 February 2021.
Given how Wales has fared for many decades, through the Thatcher years in the 1980s, 15 years of a Westminster Labour Government that didn't reform the Barnett formula, leaving Wales worse off, 11 years of Tory-led austerity and now the disgrace that it is the shared prosperity fund—and I would associate myself with what the First Minister has said about that—does the First Minister now accept that it is decades since the redistributive potential of the Untied Kingdom, to which he often refers, has come anywhere near to being fulfilled? And does he now agree with me that it's time for us here in Wales to look after ourselves and each other, using the economic levers available to an independent nation to rebuild our economy and end poverty?