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Plaid Cymru manifesto: Welsh party pledges universal childcare from the age of one

Plaid Cymru, has promised all parents of one - to three-year-olds 40 hours of free childcare a week within its election manifesto.
Adam Price, the leader of Plaid Cymru
Adam Price, the leader of Plaid Cymru

Entitled ‘Wales, It’s Us’, the manifesto also sets out plans to introduce a new £35 a week payment for every child in low-income families, which the party says would lift 50,000 children in Wales out of poverty.

Other key policies in Plaid Cymru’s manifesto include:

Plaid Cymru’s leader Adam Price said, ‘Decades of neglect from the Westminster parties, both Labour and Tories, have left us with a third of our children living in poverty. No more.

‘The solution to our problems in Wales is to take our future into our own hands. Because if we don’t believe we can change things then they never will.’

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