Wales headlines 5 December: Drakeford disagrees with Starmer over Thatcher
A woman has been stabbed in Aberfan, forcing local schools into lockdown as police searched for a suspect. Witnesses to the incident say the victim was a 29 year old pregnant woman, whose injuries are not believed to be life threatening, according to the Welsh Ambulance service.
Mark Drakeford refused to back up a statement from Labour’s UK leader Kier Starmer praising former prime minster Margret Thatcher. Starmer wrote in a newspaper article saying Thatcher I inacted real change for Britain, with many people online saying the comments were out of touch with people in Wales.
Wales has slumped to its lowest Pisa test scores ever, with the gap between here and the rest of the UK widening since the pandemic. The test in an international indicator for education levels around the world, with Wales ranking inbetween Slovenia and the Netherlands on maths, reading and science.
Mark Drakeford refused to back up a statement from Labour’s UK leader Kier Starmer praising former prime minster Margret Thatcher. Starmer wrote in a newspaper article saying Thatcher I inacted real change for Britain, with many people online saying the comments were out of touch with people in Wales.
Wales has slumped to its lowest Pisa test scores ever, with the gap between here and the rest of the UK widening since the pandemic. The test in an international indicator for education levels around the world, with Wales ranking inbetween Slovenia and the Netherlands on maths, reading and science.
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00:00 Shumai, I'm James Peach Watkins and these are your Wales headlines.
00:05 A woman has been stabbed in Aberfan, forcing local schools into lockdown as police search
00:09 for a suspect. Witnesses to the incident say the victim was a 29-year-old pregnant woman
00:13 whose injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, according to the Welsh Ambulance Service.
00:20 Mark Drakeford refused to back up a statement from Labour's UK leader Keir Starmer, praising
00:24 former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Starmer wrote in a newspaper article saying Thatcher
00:28 enacted "real change" for Britain, with many people online saying the comments were "out
00:33 of touch" with people in Wales.
00:36 Wales has slumped to its lowest PISA test scores ever, with the gap between here and
00:40 the rest of the UK widening since the pandemic. The test is an international indicator for
00:45 education levels around the world, with Wales now ranking in between Slovenia and the Netherlands
00:49 on maths, reading and science.
00:51 So, there's the headlines, you're up to date.
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