Mims Davies

So water companies must act to cut leakage, follow drought plans, and invest in resilient infrastructure.

A Conservative, Mims Davies, feared her constituents in East Grinstead and Uckfield, which covers parts of East and West Sussex, would be forced to rely on standpipes in the street for their daily water supplies.

Low rainfall, record-breaking temperatures, uh, this summer, and the El Nino impact.

Uh, it has now been announced that we are likely to get standpipes, meaning constituents, um, with water dependent businesses are already very worried and at their wits end.

He says deeper engagement with our European neighbours is essential.

Mim Davies is the Conservatives' shadow Welsh secretary.

She served in the governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson, and before politics, she was a radio presenter in South Wales and apparently earned herself the nickname DJ Lovespoon.

LAUGHTER George Monbiot is a columnist at The Guardian and a fierce critic of Britain's involvement in foreign conflicts.

The the prime minister, the premiership of Keir Starmer was not popular at that time.

And I think those two things came together and we, we took a beating at the ballot box and I absolutely accept that.

But what I would say is that I am as the secretary of state for Wales, uh, very keen to work constructively and collaboratively with Deleth and her colleagues in the Senate.

It's very important that we do what is in the interests of Wales and the people of Wales, and I will work with Plaid Cymru to do that and offer the hand of cooperation.

You had then had Kemi Badenoch saying that a deal is possible, um, we'll look at these things on a case-by-case basis.

And then you had the Tory Shadow's, uh, Welsh Secretary Mims Davies saying, "We'll only do a deal if Plaid, um, consider lowering taxes.

That's the price of our support." And you kind of say, hang on a minute.

You know, who is doing the negotiation? You know, feels a bit like too many cooks in potentially, you know, ruining the soup-

She added that couples will be able to leave an additional £1 million tax-free to their families under a Tory government as well.

Mims Davies is Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.

She was on the programme yesterday telling us she was looking forward to the speech and now she's back, I'm sure, to tell us it's the best speech she ever heard.

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shadow cabinet he wanted to get rid of nato you know if we're harping back to what we've done wrong there are other people that need to face their pasts as well and for us we are determined to be that a party that people take their fingers out their ears listen to what we're actually saying about the economy and about the country and look to the future in a really dangerous world we're the ones determined to keep us safer wealthier and protected

Mims, always good to speak to you.

Mims Davies, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.

Thanks for joining us.

And joining me this week, they're b- they're both d- it's the first time both guests have danced to the, uh, the music.

Uh, from, uh, the House of Commons, Mims Davies is Conservative MP for West Queensland and Uckfield, and the shadow secretary of state for Wales.

Hello, Mims.

We'd expect nothing less of dancing to that.