Speaking before Thursday’s meeting, Swinney made clear his view that the “Westminster status quo is not working”.<\/p>\n
“Bills are going up, people are struggling and the UK Labour government’s answer is racing further and further to the right to keep up with Nigel Farage.”<\/p>\n
Swinney said both the SNP and Welsh nationalists in Plaid Cymru shared a vision of “a society in which we support people with the cost of living rather than leaving them to languish while the rich get richer”.<\/p>\n
He added with the two parties working together, they can “make clear that a better future is possible – and that comes with the fresh start of independence”.<\/p>\n
Ap Iorwerth said he was looking forward to meeting Swinney to “discuss our shared vision for the future of our nations”.<\/p>\n
“A Plaid Cymru government would be eager to adopt best practice from around the world when it comes to adopting policies to improve people’s day-to-day lives and where better to start than with one of our closest allies in Scotland,” ap Iorwerth said.<\/p>\n
“The Scottish Child Payment is a radical and exciting policy which we are committed to introducing as a Welsh pilot should Plaid Cymru form the next government in May.<\/p>\n
“Thanks to measures like this, Scotland is the only part of the UK where child poverty rates are set to drop in the coming years. I want that to be the case in Wales too.”<\/p>\n
“With an SNP government in Scotland and a Plaid Cymru government in Wales next May, our nations will have the strongest voices possible that Westminster can simply no longer ignore,” ap Iorwerth added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking before Thursday’s meeting, Swinney made clear his view that the “Westminster status quo is not working”. “Bills…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-537261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115462330494962871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}