{"id":28391,"date":"2025-05-06T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wales-labour-first-minister-eluned-morgan-says-she-will-call-out-starmer\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:16:39","slug":"wales-labour-first-minister-eluned-morgan-says-she-will-call-out-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wales-labour-first-minister-eluned-morgan-says-she-will-call-out-starmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; Labour first minister Eluned Morgan says she will &#8216;call out&#8217; Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Wales&#8217; First Minister Eluned Morgan has said she will &#8220;call out&#8221; Labour in Westminster when it &#8220;gets it wrong for Wales&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In a major speech the Welsh Labour leader said she will &#8220;not stay silent&#8221; if the UK government takes decisions &#8220;we think will harm Welsh communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She called for UK ministers to rethink cuts to winter fuel; suggested plans to cut disability benefit were unlikely to get people into work, and demanded Wales benefit more from wind power via the Crown Estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It comes after the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj924xvzrr2o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">introduced changes to personal independence payments (PIP) and cuts to health-related universal credit<\/a> during the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/crmj0zxk7wyt\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">Spring Statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy9v7gn9729o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales&#8217; First Minister Eluned Morgan has said she will &#8220;call out&#8221; Labour in Westminster when it &#8220;gets it wrong for Wales&#8221;. In a major speech the Welsh Labour leader said she will &#8220;not stay silent&#8221; if the UK government takes decisions &#8220;we think will harm Welsh communities&#8221;. She called for UK ministers to rethink cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[936,3280,2558,1830,3281,961,312],"class_list":["post-28391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-call","tag-eluned","tag-labour","tag-minister","tag-morgan","tag-starmer","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28393,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391\/revisions\/28393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}