With just one year to go until the Senedd elections, over the weekend, the Welsh Conservatives held their 2025 conference in the Llangollen Pavilion, featuring a wide range of speakers, including industry experts, sector-specific speakers and members of the Shadow Cabinet, including Janet Finch-Saunders, Member of the Welsh Parliament for Aberconwy.
During the conference a number of policies were announced, including:
Fix our Welsh NHS
- Declare a health emergency – to focus the efforts of government on the number one priority of driving down waiting times, ensuring no patient waits more than 12 months for treatment, and introducing a seven-day GP guarantee.
- Create an NHS Leadership Register – to ensure that failed managers are not simply rehired to new positions within the Welsh NHS.
- Initiate a Public inquiry into Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
- Pupils to be automatically excluded for carrying knives into school.
- A mobile phone ban in schools – coupled with a renewed discipline drive.
- Reinstate Home Economics to the school curriculum.
- Cut the basic rate of income tax by 1p - funded through efficiency measures across government departments, protecting health, schools and farming.
- Introduce a Welsh Winter Fuel Allowance.
- Return to a 30mph default speed limit – ensuring sensitive areas, such as schools and hospitals remain 20mph.
- Unfreeze all road projects
- Introduce a Welsh Conservative Farming and Countryside Scheme – to replace Labour’s unpopular Sustainable Farming Scheme.
- Initiate an Anti-Waste Action Plan – to bear down on wasteful spending and inefficiency.
- Scrap Senedd expansion – reversing the creation of 36 more politicians.
- Cut spending on non-devolved issues – such as overseas offices, constitutional commissions and ‘justice delivery’.
- Cut ministerial pay and freeze for public sector employees earning more than £100,000.
- Protect women only spaces in all public sector organisations under control of Senedd – such as schools, hospital wards and leisure centres.
- Increase the Welsh childcare offer to match that in England.
Fix education
Putting more money in people’s pockets:
Fix transport
Focus on the people’s priorities
Commenting after addressing conference, Janet said:
“There is no doubt that after quarter of a century of Welsh Labour Government, propped up by Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats, that Wales is broken, and that a clear plan is required to undo the serious problems caused.
“It was a pleasure to take part in a conference which outlined part of our plans to fix Wales.
“As constituents have rightly highlighted to me, we should be tackling head on the problems that the people of Wales are facing, whilst delivering more efficient public services, and putting more money in people’s pockets. That is exactly what I, and the rest of the Welsh Conservative team, under Darren Millar’s leadership, are working on for you”.
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