Welsh Labour faces up to the size of its task
Welsh Labour lists the seats it hopes to win at the next Westminster election, aiming to do more than regain constituencies lost in 2010
A tough day in office for new Welsh Secretary
Our Political Editor Adrian Masters shares all the days events from the Welsh Secretary of States first Welsh Welsh Questions and the PMQ's
First Commons Questions for new Welsh Secretary
David Jones takes his first question session in the Commons since becoming Welsh Secretary
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Labour attacks Welsh Tories' tax cut call
Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith has criticised a call to reduce the 40% tax rate here in Wales made by the opposition leader Andrew RT Davies.
The contrast between Labour's proposal to cut taxes for 1.2 million Welsh workers by reintroducing a 10p band and the Tories' secret plan to prioritise 120,000 higher earners by cutting the 40p rate couldn't be clearer.Andrew RT Davies has yet to tell us how much this tax cut would cost and most importantly which services the Tories would cut to pay for it if they won power in Wales.
– Owen Smith MP, Shadow Welsh SecretaryGeorge Osborne is to introduce yet more austerity measures as he sticks to his failed economic strategy, but has he costed this tax cut into his budget plans for 2016/17? And did David Jones know about it as he prepares his response to the Silk Commission?This is a half-baked plan that won't help the Tories' credibility following the humiliating loss of Britain's AAA credit rating this weekend.
Poll is 'vote of confidence' - Labour
Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith says the results of the latest Sharp End poll represent a vote of confidence in Labour's leadership at Westminster and in Wales.
This poll is disastrous news for both the Tories and the Lib Dems. It shows the plummeting support for the UK coalition parties and a strong vote of confidence in the leadership of Ed Miliband and Carwyn Jones. That Plaid Cymru's support is also down shows that voters value the way the Welsh Labour Government is standing up for Wales in the face of cuts from Westminster.
– Owen Smith MP, Shadow Welsh SecretaryThere is a long way to go until the next elections but what is clear is that people can see for themselves the difference between a Labour Government investing in jobs and growth and protecting public services, and a Tory/Lib Dem Government prioritising a tax cut for millionaires while cutting support for working people.
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'Hi Nick, it's Boris here from Islington'
London Mayor Boris Johnson left a pre-recorded message for Nick Clegg's LBC 97.3 radio phone-in to ask "when are you going to get all those Government ministers out of their posh limos and onto public transport".
Welsh Secretary: 100 metre Jaguar trip 'is not a big deal'
Welsh Secretary David Jones MP has hit back at critics in a newspaper interview.
“It (travelling by car) enables me to do so without physically going through security at the gate, having to remove my coat or jacket" he told the Daily Post.
“I’m not in any sense troubled by this, it is all part of it. It’s not big deal.”
The photos that revealed Welsh Secretary David Jones' 100 metre trip
Welsh Secretary 'used car journey to read Cabinet papers'
"The Secretary of State for Wales, Mr David Jones, did travel by car to Cabinet as he was reading Cabinet papers and briefing until his arrival at Downing Street” says a spokesperson for the Wales Office.
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Labour criticises 'Jones the Jag' Welsh Secretary
Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith has hit out at David Jones, after the Welsh Secretary was photographed making a 100 metre journey from Downing Street in a chauffeur-driven Jaguar.
– Owen Smith MP, Shadow Welsh SecretaryWe like giving people a nickname in Wales: Evans the Milk, Dai the Pop...and now we’ve got Jones the Jag as our Secretary of State.
Still, he’s been so inactive since he got the job and made so few public appearances that perhaps he can be forgiven for taking every chance to try out the ministerial limo.
Taxpayers in Clwyd West, however, or the 5,500 people getting their tax credits cut might not all be so forgiving about his 100 yard joyride.
Welsh Labour faces up to the size of its task
by Nick Powell
Welsh Labour lists the seats it hopes to win at the next Westminster election, aiming to do more than regain constituencies lost in 2010
Read the full storyWelsh people will be hardest hit - Shadow Welsh Secretary
Shadow Welsh Secretary has criticised George Osborne's spending announcements as 'smoke and mirrors' disguising cuts which will hit low-earners in Wales hardest. He gave his reaction to our Political Editor Adrian Masters.
Court dispute over Welsh bill was 'waste of time, effort and money' - Shadow Welsh Secretary
Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary has criticised the Secretary of State for taking the dispute over the Welsh Government's first bill to the Supreme Court. Owen Smith said
Now that both of the Wales Office’s legal challenges have been dismissed out of hand, David Jones should pledge not to waste any more time or taxpayers money with further such challenges.
If the only good to come from this complete waste of time, effort and money is that the Welsh Secretary now has a better understanding of where the devolution boundary lies, I can’t help but feel the Welsh public has been left short-changed.
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