Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales is a Welsh nationalist political party in Wales that campaigns for Welsh independence and self-government, and works to protect and promote the Welsh language, culture, and traditions. It is a centre-left to left-wing party and is represented by members in the Welsh Senedd.www.partyof.wales
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Nov 2, 2026
Gareth DaviesGUEST
And I was lucky enough to be joined by RNIB's chief executive, Simon Atrebus, and also Liz Saville-Roberts, MP.
Gareth DaviesGUEST
She's the Plaid Cymru group leader in Westminster.
Gareth DaviesGUEST
And to have those two guys with me Um, it was really special is a really special day, um, going to London, um, and into the houses of parliament, which is, you know, an incredible building.
Gareth DaviesGUEST
Um, and then to go into a room full of people who share the same sort of values and beliefs around making the national parks as inclusive as possible for every sort of group of people you can imagine.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
So literally nothing would get done, right? First-past-the-post with tactical voting would instead favour the left.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
The Dems, Labour, Greens, Plaid Cymru, SNP.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
I would count the Conservatives in there, but of course, for some reason, they're nominally on the right because they like lower taxes, but also infinite Indians.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
Point being, this was inconceivable a year ago.
Natalie SedaccaGUEST
And there was actually an amendment that was introduced.
Natalie SedaccaGUEST
I do apologise if I pronounce this wrong, but Plaid Cymru, one of their MPs, had tried to bring in an amendment that would have strengthened this in terms of, you know, the duties on the health and safety executive.
Natalie SedaccaGUEST
And the government, well, you know, sort of Labour MPs said that that wasn't really necessary so it was kind of put to one side it didn't pass and that does seem a bit of a shame and a missed opportunity to really you know say okay we need to have a clearer enforcement approach towards this so you know it's good that people already have the remedies to bring individual claims but it's not quite clear how how consistently this will be enforced.
Nicola ConturisHOST
It's the usual limitation of the equality framework.
Matt ChorleyHOST
It is green.
Matt ChorleyHOST
So, from the greens, Ben O'Keefe, Plaid Cymru's Chief of Staff between 2016 and 2020.
Matt ChorleyHOST
But it's green with a yellow flower.
Ben O'KeefePANELIST
Green with a yellow flower.
Ollie ColeHOST
So let's dive in.
Ollie ColeHOST
to all things Welsh Government and Applied Cymru and lots of issues of course around the budget as well which we got from John Healy at the Dispatch Box in the House of Commons yesterday and what it all means for Wales and who better to do that with than an academic at the Wales Governance Centre also someone in the world of football she's a Vice President at UEFA and also a former Plaid Cymru candidate a little while ago.
Ollie ColeHOST
So someone who knows it all like the back of her hand, Laura McAllister.
Ollie ColeHOST
Welcome to the Senedd Sources podcast.
Ollie ColeHOST
And of course, it's worth getting into what it means for Wales because people will have listened yesterday, you know, heard the news bulletins and thought, oh, that sounds good, that sounds good, and then realised, or perhaps not even realised by now, that it doesn't all flow all the way to Wales all of the time.
Ollie ColeHOST
So let's start on the sort of big consumery offer, I think, that the government made in the UK government, which was £100 for those people, cancel tax bans A to D to go towards knocking off your energy bills next year.
Ollie ColeHOST
Now, Plaid Cymru have said that they are going to use that consequential to do exactly the same across Wales.
Ollie ColeHOST
They didn't necessarily have to, but they are going to.
ZachHOST
Not to the extent, but those divisions are clear.
ZachHOST
So you've got the SNP and Plaid Cymru in control of Holyrood and the Senate, who both want to leave the UK.
ZachHOST
You've got Restore and Reform taking this ultra-hard right line, thinking re-migration and mass deportation are the best way to solve the challenges facing society, which they may or may not be.
ZachHOST
I would say they aren't.
ZachHOST
But looking at Spain right now, you can't help but see the similarities.
ZachHOST
Like, come on.
ZachHOST
Plaid Cymru and the SNP are essentially the same as the autonomous Catalonians and the Basque.
ZachHOST
It's really similar.
David McNeillGUEST
So it's one to watch.
David McNeillGUEST
And the political situation is we have a Labour government in Westminster, but we have a Plaid Cymru government in Cardiff, a Scottish National Parliament government in Edinburgh, and a Sinn Féin government in Northern Ireland.
David McNeillGUEST
So we are...
David McNeillGUEST
We're facing some very interesting moments.
NeilAUDIENCE
We've vanquished the Tory invaders.
NeilAUDIENCE
Now in fourth place here, I'm behind Labour, Plaid Cymru, Independent.
Nick AbbotHOST
The good Welsh people said achlan to the Conservative Party.
NeilAUDIENCE
Absolutely.
Kirsty BlackmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He says, the breathing space isn't going to get people through this winter.
David CornockCORRESPONDENT
Plaid Cymru's Llinos Medi argued the budget was bad news for the Welsh government, now run by her party.
Llinos MediSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This was Labour's opportunity to show the people of Wales that they are listening following the election in the SADED last May.
Llinos MediSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Instead, it has delivered one of the worst funding settlements for Wales in years.
Stephen KinnockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What I know very clearly, and I think the Welsh Government really should correct what they're saying on this, it is clear that over the spending review period there is a real terms increase in the block grant for Wales, building on a record-breaking increase in 2025, the best settlement for the Welsh Government since devolution began in the late 1990s.
Stephen KinnockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, quite frankly, I think the Plaid Cymru Government should take the win and should then focus on building a better set of public services across Wales.
Gareth LewisCORRESPONDENT
From what you're saying, though, you're talking about the three-year spending review period.
Gareth LewisCORRESPONDENT
Do you accept that in the next financial year, there is a real-terms cut?
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James WilliamsHOST
And actually, what we're seeing is that that's not necessarily the case.
Elin JonesGUEST
Well, the budgets certainly aren't looking any better.
Elin JonesGUEST
The analysis of the Plaid Cymru manifesto was on the basis of a four-year term of government and therefore the rollout of the programmes that we will have will roll out over and be delivered over the course of that four years.
Elin JonesGUEST
So there is scope to plan this and that's what I'm doing in preparing the budget at this point.
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