{"id":2075,"date":"2024-06-12T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-should-raise-tax-snps-swinney-tells-bbc-while-starmer-and-sunak-face-tv-questions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:58:08","slug":"uk-should-raise-tax-snps-swinney-tells-bbc-while-starmer-and-sunak-face-tv-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/uk-should-raise-tax-snps-swinney-tells-bbc-while-starmer-and-sunak-face-tv-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"UK should raise tax, SNP’s Swinney tells BBC, while Starmer and Sunak face TV questions"},"content":{"rendered":"
UK should raise tax, SNP’s Swinney tells BBC, while Starmer and Sunak face TV questions<\/p>\n
Returning to that Nick Robinson interview from earlier today with Plaid Cymru’s leader, it was put to him at one point about his party’s pro-independence position.<\/p>\n
Ap Iorwerth said he would “have Wales become independent tomorrow” but accepts the country is “not at that point quite yet”, and he hopes to get voters interested in the prospect.<\/p>\n
Robinson pressed him on what that would look like in practice. Plaid also want to rejoin the EU single market – so would that mean a hard border between Wales and England?<\/p>\n
Ap Iorwerth said “absolutely not” and the party would ensure the “border is absolutely free in terms of trade and people”.<\/p>\n
He said independence is about Wales achieving its “full potential” and “redesigning” the UK, rather than breaking it up.<\/p>\n
Ap Iorwerth also criticised Labour for not advocating for rejoining the EU, which he said is because of the party’s “lurch to the right”.<\/p>\n
Asked if the UK monarch would remain head of an independent Wales, he said he is personally a republican but that decision “would be up to the people of Wales”.<\/p>\n
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