Morgan pressed on Starmer's 'divisive language'

THE First Minister was told to give a “straight answer” to questions about her party's policies in a testy interview yesterday.

- RUTH MOSALSKI

She was asked about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s language in a speech about immigration this week but also whether her government would take measures - as has happened in Scotland - to help people affected by the UK Government's cuts to winter fuel payments.

The First Minister, appearing on BBC Breakfast, said she wouldn't have used the language Mr Starmer used on Monday when he said the UK risked becoming an “island of strangers without stricter controls on immigration”.

She clarified that comments she made in the Senedd earlier this week were in response to “a right-wing position” - the Welsh Conservatives group leader Darren Millar.

Asked if she would have used the same language as the Prime Minister, she replied: “I don’t think I would have used it, no.”

She said: “What I do is to stand up for the people in my country and on my Labour Party membership card it says ‘country first! Well I’m putting my country first. What might be right for my country may not be right for the rest of the United Kingdom - we have a very different approach”.