Conservative leadership contender Liz Truss has been criticised for pledging to build a new M4 to the south of Newport if she becomes the next Prime Minister - even though she would not have the power to do it.
At the Conservative Party leadership hustings in Cardiff on Wednesday, foreign secretary Ms Truss heavily criticised Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford for his decision to scrap the project in 2019 after years in which it had been developed as a proposal to ease traffic congestion around the M4 through Newport.
The plans would have seen a three-lane motorway built on part of the Gwent Levels in Newport. After the project was ditched, in 2020 the South East Wales Transport Commission recommended building six new train stations between Cardiff and Newport to deal with the continuing congestion problems.
