00:00HS2 has cost billions of pounds to build, has gone massively over budget, taken longer
00:07than first planned and still doesn't seem close to being finished.
00:11The whole project was labelled as an England and Wales project despite it not being anywhere
00:15near Wales. The fact it's being labelled in this way has meant Scotland and Northern Ireland
00:20have been given billions of pounds in consequentials, but Wales has gotten zero.
00:25With Labour now being in power in Westminster and Cardiff Bay, there was hope that the First
00:29Minister would be able to convince the Prime Minister to change that and give Wales the
00:33money it deserves.
00:35Keir Starmer though has said that that will not happen, and Plaid Cymru leader Srinath
00:39Beorwerth has accused the First Minister of not sticking up for Wales and fighting for
00:43that money.
00:44And Eluned Morgan said that she has raised the issue and is in conversations aiming to
00:48get fair funding.
00:50She says she will continue to make the case, but it might not be enough as her counterpart
00:54in Westminster doesn't seem to want to change his mind any time soon.
