Rhun ap Iorwerth

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317 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · 'A bad start even before he starts' - Welsh First Minister on why trouble's brewing with Burnham · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

I didn't come to this to do easy things.

I came in to to try to do things that really push the boundaries of what a government could do, and not just in terms of finding the funding, but getting the people to do it and

And aligning all the policy objectives and and so on.

So I d I don't think it's a fair criticism, but there's th there's an approach which is very, very different under applied common government.

There's a set of values from being a party that is focused solely on doing the right thing for Wales.

It's interesting the language there, you know there are plenty of people who loathe that because they just say Witch does.

Oh, this this isn't about whether people are Welsh or not, uh at all.

You're Welsh if you want to be Welsh, and that it's as simple as uh as that, that that's as true for a politician as anybody else.

And by the way, I I don't for a second doubt the commitment of my predecessors in wanting to do the best for Wales.

What I'm saying is that there's an extra impetus, there's an extra bit of motivation when you're saying I don't have a boss in London.

Yeah, we're we're doing this for the people of Wales, and that that is it.

And I think that's

That that really has resonated with people the length and breath of world, especially young people.

No.

Kears Daumer?

I have uh said publicly, if it is him and it looks likely to be him, I would hope that his experience of working within a devolved structure in Manchester would make him more appreciative of the pitches I would be making to him on the importance of funding, on making sure that we have the right powers in a deliverable way and so on, and that he would recognise the challenges that I face as a leader in Wales, that maybe he he

Faced in Manchester.

There are some troubling signs, I must say.

He is not yet the Prime Minister.

Before he's started, he's made a rather bad start in saying, No, I'm not going to be looking at near the funding formula through which Wales fundamentally gets its block of funding from the Treasury, despite very, very clearly marking himself out on a number of occasions in the past as somebody saying, you know what, we've got to get rid of this unfairness of funding.

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