Stephen Kinnock

£2.5 million for Anglesey Science Park, although they are subject to a business case.

Well, our political editor Gareth Lewis has spent the day at Westminster, as you might expect, and a little earlier he caught up with the Secretary of State for Wales and he began by asking Stephen Kinnock whether today's budget represented slim pickings for Wales.

Well, I think it's a budget that is doing two things.

It's giving people breathing space, but it's also setting the future direction of the country and the stability that we need, which of course benefits the Welsh economy right across the board.

So it's the UK government's responsibility now to deliver on this piece of work, both in allocating the funding and in delivering the services via Network Rail.

And Working and Transport for Wales and Network Rail are prepared to and will work together on the delivery of this rail infrastructure rollout.

But it is the UK government's responsibility to deliver on these stations, both in terms of the allocation of funding, which they've failed to do today, and in terms of the delivery and the shovels in the ground that Stephen Kinnock spoke about.

It's their shovels in our ground.

Now, of course, the subject of rejoining the EU naturally came up on last week's BBC Question Time from Brecon Beacons in Wales.

Stephen Kinnock was there and had this to say.

It's definitely time to have an honest conversation about our relationship with the European Union.

We had a debate.

I believe strongly that there is strength in numbers and not being in the European Union has definitely weakened our position from that point of view.

So in every measure it is clear that Brexit has done more harm than good.

Stephen Kinnock, Labour MP, speaking on BBC Question Time last Thursday.

He was joined by the always brilliant George Monbiot, who had

I think that Andy Burnham has signalled that he's more open to those suggestions.

But what we get from Stephen Kinnock, the Secretary of State for Wales, is that he wants to hear, if there is evidence, Well, there is an armful of independent commissions led by former chief justices who have absolutely made the case for this.

There is no argument.

So when we're talking about further devolution, and there is an obvious way to demonstrate that now through giving us power over policing, then...

So it, it came from there, so I, I give it a watch.

And on the, on the panel was Stephen Kinnock, who is now, at this present point in time, Secretary of State for Wales.

Mm.

Uh, next to him was a nonentity who's left the Conservatives and joined Reform.

The government's reviewing that.

So could an updated formula kick in from next year? That's something that the former primary care minister, Stephen Kinnock, suggested could happen it could start from april 2027 if that happens what would it look like how big a change would it be you know we're talking about a tweak are we talking about a real big shift would there be the step change in funding then that experts say could be needed to protect practices that lose out from being destabilized there are big questions around that funding system and how that works for general practice that could come into the negotiations this time in the contract List cleaning, also a big issue.

Just to come back to that, it's already wiped more than £100 million a year from core funding because of the large reduction in registered patients.

And we know large numbers of active patients have been removed under the current system, so it's not entirely fair.

Britain is broken, Wales is broken, and nothing gets fixed unless you're willing to admit it.

Stephen Kinnock is the Secretary of State for Wales and MP for Aberavon-Mysteg.

Before entering politics, he worked in Brussels, Russia, Sierra Leone and Switzerland.

He says deeper engagement with our European neighbours is essential.

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I feel tonight we've heard Stephen Kinnock talk about wanting to go back into the European Union and I think that represents everything that I hated about the European Union.

It is a corrupt old boys network and Stephen Kinnock's family have done well out of the European Union and that's why a lot of people don't like it because it's corrupt old boys club.

So, two other points.

Although Plaid like Andy Burnham at the moment, one person they don't like is Stephen Kinnock, the new Secretary of State for Wales.

I'm not going to go into too much detail because I actually did an interview with him at the Labour conference, which I'm going to be putting out in the coming weeks.

But there was some real anger that he was describing reform and Plaid as the same poison.

I don't want it for her.

Poor

Stephen Kinnock, by the way.

We're like, who?