Rishi Sunak dodged calls for Wales to get a fair chunk of rail funding in what was described as the "great Welsh train robbery".
The Prime Minister was challenged in the House of Commons by Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader Liz Saville-Roberts over the decision to class HS2 and Northern Powerhouse as an "England and Wales" project despite not a centimetre of track to be laid in Wales. This UK Government decision will likely cost Wales around £5bn of funding over the coming seven years. The funding is very complicated and you can read a breakdown of how this is allocated here.
The comment was delivered in Prime Minister's Questions just hours before Plaid Cymru’s motion calling on the UK Government to re-designate HS2 as an England only project, which was supported unanimously by all parties within the Senedd.
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