At the Royal Welsh Show, the Welsh Conservatives will restate their commitment to putting farmers and our rural way of life first, against a further Labour attack on countryside communities. Commenting, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs, James Evans MS said:
“For years now rural communities in Wales have been under attack from Labour. From NVZs and slashing the rural affairs budget to their SFS which would have decimated farmers costing over 5,000 jobs and taking £200 million out of our economy.
“Keir Starmer always said that Wales was his blueprint for government. I fear that Labour in Wales will follow his lead in Westminster and have our vital green spaces in their sights.
“Only the Welsh Conservative will protect our rural communities and enable them to be the guardians of the countryside that we know they are, saving it from Labour and Plaid’s onslaught.”
Mark Isherwood, Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning added:
“A week into Keir Starmer taking over and his Government have put the green belt on notice in England.
“Little has changed in the 16 years since the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found “a significant level of unmet housing need in rural Wales, with problems of affordability more acute, homelessness levels increasing more sharply and social housing supply more limited than in urban areas”.
“It’s vital that we build more homes, but they must be built in the right place, not at the expense of our rural heritage and food security.
“The Welsh Conservatives will build more houses, empowering and working with communities so that homes are where they are needed as part of a new deal for young people and families in Wales.”
