Part of 2. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 29 June 2021.
Well, I regret the fact that you are unable to put an apology on the record, First Minister, but I'm grateful for your more detailed explanation around the sentiments of your comments some two weeks ago.
If I could address, in my third question to you, the change of policy within 72 hours around the Llandeilo bypass, which I appreciate was a policy agreed with Plaid Cymru in a budget deal in 2017. I happen to believe that there does need to be a bypass for Llandeilo, and I also believe there are other towns that require bypasses as well, such as Dinas Powys in my own electoral region, which has been campaigning for some 50 years. But what I have struggled to find out—. But where I have struggled to find consistency is in the remarks of the Minister on his feet here in the Chamber, who said,
'I think it would look very odd if we'd left Llandeilo out of the whole-Wales review and I would have certainly raised some questions.'
So, why, in 72 hours, did the policy position change or is this just pork-barrel politics?