Rhun ap Iorwerth

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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

In which case that's definitely the end of Labour in Wales.

Or there could be perhaps some reflection on why they lost that election and why the people of Wales had lost faith in Labour.

I would say that people have recognised that Wales isn't as important to the UK Labour Party as perhaps they had hoped.

Andy Burnham has an opportunity to show actually we do care a bit.

But how were they able to do that?

Because they had the independence to take those decisions on their own and those economic levers that could help us really plough our own furrow are held still by the UK government.

It that's precisely why we want that power to be able to mould our own future.

But it's not in isolation.

And Ireland has flourished as a member of the European Union.

I've I've come here today from addressing ambassadors of all European members.

Member States talking about why, to my mind, cooperation across Europe is vital to a country like Wales.

We'll look after our own nation, we'll look after Wales, but the relations that we have with others when we do that are vital.

And that means the relationship that we have with the UK centre.

I'd like a redesign of Britain, and it means our relations

with individual neighbours like like Ireland, but also collectively the European Union.

And and and hopefully people watching uh my kind of politics uh closely will recognise that that's not the way I put forward the case for what we can do uh as a nation.

I am a pragmatist.

Sometimes people use that as a compliment, sometimes they don't, but I am a a pragmatist.

I deal with what we have now.

I will seek to do the best for Wales now with the powers that we have, with the funding that we have.

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