HS2 funding has been a topic that has been thrown back and forth for years now, and the questions don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. Many politicians around Wales believe we are owed billions due to funding set ups, but the Prime Minister doesn’t seem to think so.
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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.