BURSTForeign secretary says it is ‘right way forward’ for young teenagers to have digital ID
The leader of Plaid Cymru has ruled out holding a referendum on independence in the next five years if he became first minister, reports the PA news agency.
Rhun ap Iorwerth told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:
We’re very supportive and very eager to see us getting back into the single market, into the customs union. We know that movement of people is something that is a part of that.
I think it’s a yes because we know how much we miss the movement of people both ways into and from the European Union, and the way that it’s affected so many sectors.
We have Welsh rates of income tax, part of income tax now comes directly into the Welsh Treasury, we want to grow the Welsh economy.
That’s why we have put together ‘making Wales work’ – probably the most comprehensive economic strategy in any part of the UK at the moment – because we desperately need it here in Wales.
We’ve been clear, there’s a whole series of security threats that have come from China, for example, things like transnational repression, for example, things like cyber threats and attacks and industrial espionage, and so on.
They are also, of course, an important trading partner, and also they’re somebody that we need to work with on things like climate change.
We know China poses threats to UK national security.
I am deeply frustrated about this case, because I, of course, wanted to see it prosecuted, but ministers were not involved in any of the evidence that was put to the Crown Prosecution Service or the Crown Prosecution Service’s independent decisions.
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