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

Interesting, the most immediate task is one that you've kind of

Um uh i it is more challenging in that the in-year pressures on health in particular are greater than people were, including us, were were led to believe.

I think that the hundreds of millions of pounds uh are of pressures.

But

What we have pointedly done is to not say, I'm there for, you know, all that vision that we talked about, you know, we're gonna we're gonna park that and blame the last lot.

We're not going to do that.

It's up to the last lot, it's it's up to the last Labour government to reflect on the state of the public finances in Wales when they left office.

But one of the big mistakes I think that Keir Starmer made was to come into office and he and Rachel Reeves say, there is a black hole in our budget.

Well, I had been saying for months that there was a black hole in the budget.

Everybody knew there was a black hole in the budget.

They decided to to pretend that they didn't know there was one, and then use that as reason to do things that were

Contrary to the party's values.

What we've said is we'll just roll up our sleeves more and and get down to work to make sure that we deliver what we said we would.

So I I mean anybody who would have watched the initial statements that I made in the Sened and the responses to those first questions from party leaders and others, they they could uh not have been left under any illusion as to how willing I was to be cooperative with others.

I I could not have been more clear.

It's a political instinct of mine to seek common ground and t to look for ways that we can

Well, w the supplementary budget has been uh published now and it will go to committee now.

It'll go to finance committee where there'll be discussions.

And remember what what a supplementary budget is, and it's definitely not about taking anybody's vote for granted.

It is about aligning the money that we have to spend in Wales with those things that we said we would set out to do in government, aligning our priorities with the money that we have to spend.

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