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Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

I shall be ““tarian y gweithwyr””, but ““tarian y cwmnïau hefyd””—the shield of companies also—because it is important to remember the employers. If we did not have employers, we would not have employees. I will try to remember what the hon. Gentleman said, but I will also remember that if we do not make these cuts, we will be in a perilous situation. A business supplement headline in The Sunday Times a few months ago read, ““Britain will not be downgraded—yet””. That ““yet”” was the killer word, because only a few months ago, a national newspaper was discussing the fact that Britain was not about to be downgraded just at that moment.