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Work Programme (Wales)

(Translation): Thank you very much, Mr Havard. I hope that the people listening through the translation system can hear me. First, let me say how excellent it is to be back in Wrexham, although I arrived late, and apologise once again for that. Since the Eisteddfod, Wrexham has been very close to my heart; I stood for the constituency of Clwyd South in an Assembly election and enjoyed the experience greatly, even though I was not elected. In the history of our country, this has been a central constituency. There were people who supposed that the area looked too far eastwards, but I am glad that the way that the people of this area voted in the recent referendum clearly confirms that they feel very much part of the national project. We should not only consider the Wrexham motto— labor omnia vincit—but remember what the poet, the Rev. O. M. Lloyd, said many years ago in a poem at an Eisteddfod. He said in a beautiful and interesting cynghanedd-groes that Wrexham is the direction; I, too, would say that it is. That is a cynghanedd that clicks if nothing else.