Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 11 June 2024.
Samuel Kurtz
Conservative
2:11,
11 June 2024
Since being elected, First Minister, you've u-turned on reform to the school year, delayed the sustainable farming scheme, and attempted to change the rhetoric around the default 20 mph policy, without actually changing anything. So, this is a Labour Government so bereft of new ideas that it is now changing policies that it itself introduced that we've been campaigning against. So, thank you. Wouldn't you agree with me, First Minister, that this is a Welsh Labour Government out of ideas and led by a First Minister who is hanging on by a thread?
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