Felicity Evans

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273 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 May

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Newscast · Could A Brexit Reset Mean A New Single Market? (Live At Hay Festival) · 23 May 2026 podcast

And I think a lot of people would fear the thought of going back to that sort of political paralysis, given the challenges that are facing us as an economy and as a country, really.

I thought it was there to add gravitas to my point.

Well, the most striking thing about it has been the sort of messaging that we've been hearing from Plaid Cymru.

It's because the new government faces quite a challenging fiscal landscape, given the Treasury's spending plans for the next few years.

Now, obviously, they can change, but we can only deal with the plans as they've been currently set out.

And they are exceptionally challenging, more challenging than faced the previous government.

Plaid has got all sorts of spending commitments, the expansion of free childcare.

It wants to pilot a Scottish child payment to address the issue of child poverty, which has been a stubborn and pretty poisonous problem in Wales for decade after decade, really.

They're modelling that on the Scottish child payment.

Oh, and there's another sound effect coming in right there.

I don't even know how you'd describe that one.

It is, really.

So we're still waiting for some clarity, really, from Plaid on how they're planning to pay for that.

I mean, there is talk of reprioritisation.

Translated, that does normally mean cuts.

And they talk about getting rid of things that didn't work.

You know, Sheenap Yodworth, the new First Minister.

during the course of the election campaign, was talking a lot about how Labour had boasted of spending £7 billion to try to get to grips with child poverty and saying, well, you know, spending the money isn't the issue, it's the outcome that counts.

So, you know, it may well be that they're going to identify programmes they feel haven't worked and try to get rid of those, but because there are minority governments, they will have to get budgets passed, and so there could well be some pretty difficult negotiations coming through on that.

In terms of the messaging...

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