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Welsh Affairs

Proceeding contribution from Owen Smith (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 5 March 2015. It occurred during Backbench debate on Welsh Affairs.

Well, I am terribly sorry, but I have read the Prime Minister’s speech, and that is precisely what he said, despite the fact that that was nothing to do with the UK Government. It was delivered entirely by the Welsh Government while this Government were slashing arts funding.

The Prime Minister also claimed that the Tories were responsible for Hitachi rebuilding Wylfa power station, despite the fact that it was of course the last Labour Government who signed the contract for that new generation power station. He even claimed credit for Airbus making wings for the A380 in Wales, despite the fact that the company has been making aircraft at Broughton since the second world war. The most shameless in this series of porkies was the suggestion that the Tories had secured the funding for S4C, when in truth they had cut it by a third.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
593 c1174 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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