By David Deans, Political reporter, BBC Wales Information
The following prime minister of the UK might be Sir Keir Starmer, the chief of Plaid Cymru has mentioned.
In a Panorama interview with Nick Robinson, Rhun ap Iorwerth predicted that Labour will win the election no matter how Wales votes.
He requested Welsh voters to again the pro-independence occasion to forestall Labour from having a “big majority” that may permit them to behave with “impunity”.
It comes after Conservative Grant Shapps warned Labour might win a “supermajority”.
Mr ap Iorwerth additionally claimed that “tax is an efficient factor” when requested how Plaid Cymru would deal with the economic system.
Plaid Cymru had received 4 MPs on the final election. Following the boundary re-organisation to 32 seats it might be troublesome for the occasion to repeat that efficiency.
Mr ap Iorwerth has beforehand mentioned the election might be troublesome for the occasion. The previous BBC Wales political journalist has been accountable for Plaid Cymru since final 12 months.
‘They’ve forgotten Wales’
Within the interview, Mr ap Iorwerth mentioned he would really like Wales to have the ability to set “visa numbers to get extra folks into work” in well being and social care.
The occasion chief mentioned folks’s anxieties on migration have been being exploited, and mentioned they shouldn’t be blamed for cuts to public companies.
“Keir Starmer goes to be prime minister in 4 weeks time,” Mr ap Iorwerth mentioned.
“I feel the proof factors in that path.
“He’ll turn into prime minister no matter how Wales votes. That is a key issue for folks to think about in Wales.”
“Would you want an enormous Labour majority, that permits them to behave with impunity and permits them to proceed what they’re doing now which is ignore Wales fully?”
He accused some senior Welsh Labour Westminister figures “who act as if they’ve forgotten they’re representing Wales”.
Mr ap Iorwerth criticised the shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens, who mentioned that Labour could not commit to a share of funding from the HS2 rail project.
The scheme is designated as being England and Wales, regardless of not reaching Wales, which means Wales doesn’t get more money consequently from the undertaking.
The Plaid Cymru chief mentioned the occasion had a “variety of proposals for bringing in additional tax” and referred to as for an “sincere debate” on the problem.
“I would like us to recognise to begin with that tax is an efficient factor,” Mr ap Iorwerth informed the programme.
He mentioned the UK wants “taxes to be introduced in” to “pay for public companies”.
The Member of the Senedd for Ynys Môn mentioned his occasion’s concepts included “ensuring that these oil and fuel corporations pay extra of a windfall tax”, and that “those that have big quantities of wealth are focused by means of a wealth tax”.
However he mentioned he wouldn’t “add to the burden” on low and medium earnings earners.
In March, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt prolonged a 35% tax on these corporations – the Power Revenue Levy – till 2029.
It was launched by Mr Sunak when he was chancellor after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought on demand and costs to rise.
Plaid Cymru needs Wales to be an unbiased state, however has deserted a earlier pledge for a referendum on independence by 2026.
Mr ap Iorwerth mentioned his job was to “get folks , intrigued” about what independence might imply.
“If we’re to take away these shackles of kid poverty, the financial stagnation that we have suffered in Wales, we’ve got to take the levers of become our personal fingers,” he mentioned.
However he mentioned the nation was “not at that time fairly but”.
“We’re inside a UK system, we make a case for truthful funding for Wales so we are able to make the best selections on public servicers and rising the economic system and so forth that may lead us on a optimistic trajectory,” the Plaid chief added.
However he mentioned Wales “can’t fulfil our potential as a rustic” till it’s unbiased.
‘Proper for Gething to go’
Requested if there ought to be a buying and selling border with England, he mentioned: “Do I would like that type of barrier? Completely not.”
Plaid Cymru was in a co-operation agreement with the Welsh Labour government until last month.
It had been working with ministers on a gaggle of insurance policies, together with increasing free college meals and childcare.
Mr ap Iorwerth had ended the deal early partially due to the row over the first minister’s leadership campaign donations.
He mentioned when Vaughan Gething grew to become first minister, he “confirmed a change of path, change in angle in the direction of the type of radical issues that we have been making an attempt to usher in by means of that co-operation settlement”.
Mr ap Iorwerth added: “When there was a scandal on prime of that [there were] too many distractions, it was time to go our separate methods.”
He mentioned the “proper factor to do can be for the primary minister to face down”.
The chief rejected options that Plaid Cymru is a celebration for Welsh audio system.
“We’re about all of Wales. We converse folks’s language on well being, training and the economic system, and that is the important thing factor,” he mentioned.
The BBC is interviewing all the most important occasion leaders within the run-up to the election in The Panorama Interviews with Nick Robinson. You’ll be able to watch the interview with Rhun ap Iorwerth on BBC iPlayer.