Welsh Tories’ Trump trip means Labour to win budget vote
Political correspondent, Broadcasting Corporation Wilsh News
The Wales government is preparing to win the draft budget voting because the Conservative leader and his other politician went to the Prayer Conference held by the United States in Washington, DC.
Darren Millar and Russell George will go to the country to pray for breakfast. President Donald Trump will give a speech, which means that the two will miss Senedd ) The first chance to debate and vote for the expenditure plan next year.
The prayer meeting on February 6 is an important date in the American political calendar and the first time since Trump’s inauguration.
The Labor Party occupies half of the seats in the Wales Parliament, so if the opposition is united, it cannot win the votes.
The lattice Cymru accused the Conservatives of abandoning the opposition, and the reform said that the conservative “didn’t care about Wales”.
Voting is largely symbolic, but losing it will make the government embarrassed.
These two Conservative Party are the trustees of the Christian charity Evans Roberts College.
The institute funded Rhys Ab Owen to participate in the same American event last year. When he was investigated for his own behaviorEssence
The ministers will have to release the final version of the budget and be approved by the senators next month.
Conservatives strongly criticized the expenditure plan and said on Monday night: “You must vote for decision.”
However, it appeared on Tuesday morning that Milal would not be there because he was described as “long -term commitments in the United States, and he will meet many highly noticed politicians here.
Senator who are absent can ask one member of the other party to participate in voting, which is an informal arrangement called pairing.
It is understood that the conservative party requires the Labor Party to match, but requires rejection.
If a lady needs childcare leave, long -term illness, care of responsibility or suffering, someone can vote on behalf of them on behalf of them. Labor Party’s Lesley Griffiths stayed for a month and arranged for agency voting.
The grid Cymru said he would vote against the budget.
It is believed that the only Liberty Democratic Party Jane Dodds is the most likely to be a transaction with the government.
In the problem of the first minister, Rhmru leader Rhmru leader Rhun AP IORWERTH said Milal’s absence is “extraordinary”.
He said that the party “even obviously gave up even the opposition party.”
David Fouweather, a conservative member of New Potter, said on X: “If this is true, the disappearance of our two members is absolutely shame. Do what you want to do “”
A spokesman for reform without SEEDD said: “Today, the Senede opposition has the opportunity to oppose the catastrophic budget of Mark Drakeford.
“Instead, the opponent’s Conservative leader once again proved that the Conservative Party was not in Wales in Washington, DC. They were just oppositions.”
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Gareth Lewis, Politics Editor in Broadcasting Corporation,
Politics sometimes develops in a mysterious way, but this development is surprising.
Yes, voting for the draft budget will be symbolic, because the final vote will be carried out in March, but this is a rare opportunity for a rare and embarrassing labor force.
Now, this is a conservative position in this position, especially after issuing a strong press release last night, the budget should be voted-they know that this is impossible.
It was a kind of described by labor and grid Cymru, which was surprised by the incident.
Conservative sources are trying to put it down and say that under any circumstances, Liberal Party leader Jane Dodes will abstain-although she has not confirmed how she will vote.
And this does not get rid of the final operation-Labor Party still needs to reach an agreement to obtain a budget through SEEDD in March.
“Long -term promise”
The Wales Conservative spokesman said: “There is a vote today to” indicate “the draft budget. This is not the final vote for next month. The Wales Conservative Group will definitely vote to decide because we believe that the Labor Party’s priority is wrong.
“Darren has made a long -term promise in the United States, and he will meet many of the highly anticipated politicians.
“After Keir Starmer decided to allow approximately one hundred laborers to make decisions on President Trump’s foreign activities, Darren’s present will help rebuild the relationship between the United States more extensively widely. “” “
In the debate, Mark Drakeford, the Minister of Finance, told SEEDD that he had “provided exciting for every public service in Wales and public services in many other important areas.”
He said: “NHS, local governments, education, transportation, and climate change will benefit from this additional funds.”
However, conservative financial spokesman Sam Rowlands accused the Wales government of “forced focus on centralization and government work to sacrifice and trust people to spend their own money in the best way to family.”
He called on the ministers to use their tax power to “reduce the tax burden of the Welsh and put more money back to the pockets of people who work hard.”
Heledd Fychan’s Heledd Fychan said: “Each independent analysis in crisis (and every department in crisis) shows that as we were told that the draft budget will not bring a better future in Wales.”
She said that Senede should “suggest” and “ensure fair funds for Wales and enable us to manage our resources more effectively in Wales.”
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