Welsh Conservatives bring forward debate to fix our Welsh economy by creating more jobs and boosting growth

The latest Labour Market Overview, published by the Office for National Statistics, has shown that Wales’s unemployment rate and economic inactivity rate has increased, whist our employment rate has decreased. In fact, Wales has the lowest employment rate in the United Kingdom, and the highest economic inactivity rate in Great Britain. Under 26 years of…

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Plaid, Labour & Lib Dems fail to vote for Welsh Conservative plans to reduce waiting lists and fix our NHS

A series of Freedom of Information requests by the Welsh Conservatives revealed that since the May 2021 Senedd election, where Labour formed yet another Welsh Government with the support of Plaid Cymru, 38,374 patients have died while waiting for NHS treatment. The Labour Health Minister, now First Minister, Eluned Morgan promised to eliminate two-year waits for treatment…

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Posts taken from Save School Transport in Rhondda Cynon Taf Hi! I’m new to this group. I recently joined because I am disgusted at the way home-to-school transport is treating school children Different day, but same poor kids waiting in the rain all ready to spend the day in soaking wet clothes So so wrong…

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Wales FMQs: “national scandal” as 40,000 patients die waiting for treatment

Today, at First Minister’s Questions, the leader of the opposition raised with the First Minister a series of Welsh Conservative Freedom of Information requests revealing that since the May 2021 Senedd election, where Labour formed yet another Welsh Government with the support of Plaid Cymru, 38,374 patients had died while waiting for NHS treatment. The Labour Health…

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Employment down, unemployment and economic inactivity rise in Wales. The Labour Cardiff Capital Region City Deal aims to create up to 25,000 new jobs. Where? 

The latest labour market statistics for Wales, covering July 2025, revealed that Wales’ employment rate is now the lowest in the whole UK, at 70.8%. Economic inactivity in Wales remains the highest in Britain, at 25.6% and unemployment has risen to 4.7%. Welsh Conservatives lay blame at the Welsh Labour Government which controls Wales’ economic…

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Traffic Chaos in RCT is all down to the Rhondda Cynon Taf Labour-run Council 58 Labour Councillors, 8 Plaid Cymru, 3 Independent, 3 RCT Independent Group, 2 Welsh Conservatives, just 16 opposition councillors. Equates to zero opposition, zero scrutiny

FB: Not sure why I can only reply “anonymously”, but there are several parents in Hirwaun paying for the “spare” seats to Rhydywaun. We’ve been charged £154 and they have changed the route! So kids now have to walk 7-10 minutes for their paid seat on the bus. Several parents have spoken to the transport department…

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