00:00I take this responsibility seriously, and I therefore look forward to having a constructive
00:08relationship with you, First Minister. I won't shy away from holding you and your government
00:13to account, but where it is possible, my party and I will work with you in the interests
00:19of the people of Wales and with other political parties in this chamber, because we are here
00:24elected to serve them, and that's why they will always be first in our minds.
00:31Can I first of all welcome Darren to his new role as the leader of the opposition, the
00:37Conservatives in Wales, and I've no doubt we will have some very robust, but constructive
00:45exchanges in the Senedd. I'm almost looking forward to it, Darren.
00:49And of course it didn't take them long to have one of those robust exchanges, as things
00:53got off to a fiery start between the pair, with plenty of finger-pointing, blaming and
00:58some scathing takes on the situation of the NHS in Wales. Darren Miller clearly wants
01:02to hit the ground running as leader of the opposition.
01:06Under Labour, Wales has become the sick man of Britain. We have Welsh NHS waiting lists
01:12that have increased for the past eight months in a row, and staggeringly, over 24,000 people
01:19in Wales have been waiting two years or more for treatment. It is an absolute scandal,
01:25and it is clear that the NHS in Wales, on your watch as a previous health minister,
01:31is broken. What are you going to do to fix it?
01:34I'll tell you what we're going to do. There's an increased amount of money that is coming
01:37in for the first time in a very long time. You heard me talk earlier about how difficult
01:42it was for us to make those cuts to things like the arts, and you talked about wanting
01:46to work constructively. You want to work constructively. Make sure that billion pound
01:51comes to Wales, because we need an extra vote here, and if we don't get it, you won't be
01:55getting that billion pound.
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