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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Burnham must understand Wales is ‘not a region in England’, says first minister

Rhun ap Iorwerth
Ap Iorwerth said Burnham got it right in Manchester and ‘now needs to know what devolution means for Wales’. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Andy Burnham has to be serious about devolution and understand that Wales is a nation and “not a region in England”, according to the country’s first minister.

Rhun ap Iorwerth, who is the first non-Labour leader of the Senedd since devolution, told the Guardian that while he was encouraged by initial discussions with the new UK prime minister, he was wary about Burnham being captured by a consensus Westminster view against relinquishing further powers.

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