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Will Hayward

Keir Starmer refuses to commit to Wales getting share of HS2 funding

Keir Starmer has refused to guarantee that as Prime Minister he would give Wales' a fair share of HS2 funding or additional money for the NHS.

Speaking to WalesOnline at the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno he said the Welsh Government would get control how money previously coming from the EU structural funds were spent but that there would be no additional funding commitments until a general election campaign had begun.

A WalesOnline investigation demonstrated how Wales was being shortchanged by £5bn over high speed rail as it has been defined by the Tories as an "England and Wales" project despite not a single metre of track actually being in Wales. Both Welsh Labour and the Welsh Tories have called for the project to be reclassified.

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