Resetting the relationship with Westminster

A Plaid Cymru Government will reset the relationship between Westminster and Wales.

For too long, successive Labour and Conservative UK Governments have treated Wales like a second-class nation. Plaid Cymru will use our mandate to ensure that Wales’s voice is heard and that our national interests are protected.

As a first step, we will continue to make the case for more powers to be devolved to the Senedd to give Wales parity with Scotland.

This transfer of powers should be secured via a new Wales Bill and we are prepared to work with the UK Government to ensure that this legislation is fit for purpose and implemented as soon as possible.

To address the historic underfunding of Wales as a result of the unfair Barnett Formula, we will seek urgent talks with the UK Government to devise and implement a new formula which funds our nation according to our real needs, not on the basis of our share of population.

With more and more people being persuaded that Wales’s future should be decided by the people of Wales not by Westminster, we will begin the work of establishing a standing National Commission to spark a national conversation about the next steps on our constitutional journey.

In line with the recommendation made by the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales in March 2024, we will press the UK Government to pass legislation to put intergovernmental relations and the Sewel Convention on a firmer footing.