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Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. That is a point that the Minister needs to address in his reply. Only yesterday the right hon. Lady had to make a humiliating climb down on the housing LCO. She and her Minister blocked it in the pre-election wash-up negotiations but Carwyn Jones has now forced her to take it through. And a good thing too for the homeless and the thousands in Wales in desperate need of affordable housing. On the Budget, the Government say the richest will bear the brunt. That is simply not true. Many on low and modest incomes will feel the pain much more. The real scandal of the budget is that the poorest will be hit the worst. I expect nothing less from Tories, but Liberal Democrats should hang their heads in shame. The party of Lloyd George, who first established the state pension in 1909, and William Beveridge, who in 1942 paved the way for the welfare state, has abandoned all it stood for.