Western Mail Wales treated like a thorn in PM’s side

IT MUST be annoying for senior politicians like Keir Starmer when journalists want to ask difficult questions.

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The Prime Minister was in Cardiff yesterday to attend a carefully choreographed press event about the UK Government's child poverty strategy, as well as to attend the British and Irish Council.

At a family centre in the city’s Ely suburb - which is receiving £2m of funding from the Welsh Government to expand, remodel and refurbish - he and First Minister Eluned Morgan met families and spoke to the media.

‘This was a visit designed to talk about one thing - child poverty and the government's new strategy designed both to tackle it and justify the extra tax everyone will have to pay to fund lifting the two-child benefit cap.