Welsh NHS: Eluned Morgan says she will cut NHS waiting times

Opposition parties were unimpressed by the statement.

Andrew RT Davies, Welsh Conservative Senedd leader, said it was the “lightest first minister’s statement I’ve seen at the opening of a Senedd term”.

He said it was “light” on the way the initiatives would be delivered, and said the Welsh government had missed “every target to get those waiting times that have proved so stubbornly high”.

“What does the first minister believe in her role as first minister she can do to push those waiting times down that she couldn’t do when she was health minister?” he said.

Both he and laid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth highlighted that agriculture was not discussed by the first minister.

Ap Iorwerth said similarly it was a “very, very thin” statement from the first minister.

He said the result of the summer listening exercise, “as we’ve been told today, surprise, surprise, was that health and education and the economy were the top priorities”.

“Goodness me, if a party that’s been leading Welsh government for 25 years hadn’t realized that those were the priorities, then we’re in deeper trouble with Labour than I thought”.