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Welsh Conservative Easy Read Manifesto 2021 About the Welsh Conservative Party We are the Welsh Conservative Party. We are a part of the wider Conservative and Unionist Party which is led by Boris Johnson. He is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Andrew RT Davies is our candidate to be the next First Minister of Wales. You can vote for us in the Welsh Parliament elections on May 6th. The Welsh Parliament is also known as Senedd Cymru. 1 1 We have written down all the issues we think are important and would like to tell you about - this is known as a manifesto. At a Welsh Parliament election you can vote for who you want to become your Member of the Senedd or MS. There are two types of MS. One that helps a local area which we call a constituency. And one that helps a wider area called a region. You have one constituency MS and four regional MS. ✗ On the 6th May you have two votes. One for the Constituency MS and one for the regional MS. 2 Our manifesto will tell you: • What we believe in • And what we will do if we win the Welsh Parliament elections. A Party wins an election by having the most MS. They can then come together to form the Welsh Government. 3 The Covid-19 virus has hurt Wales’ public services - such as our hospitals and our schools. It has also hurt our economy - with people losing their jobs and businesses shutting down. We have a plan to help people find a new job. We will also pay for new doctors, nurses and teachers to work in our hospitals and schools. 4 We also think that another Party - the Labour Party, who are in charge at the moment - have not done a good job. They have been in charge of Wales for more than 20 years. 1999 We don’t think that their ideas are the best way to create more jobs and pay for our hospitals. 5 We have some key actions that we would do to help people and businesses in Wales. We would create 65,000 jobs by letting businesses keep more of their own money to pay for staff. We will build a new motorway off the M4 in Newport and make changes to the A55 in North Wales, the A40 in West Wales and the A470 in Mid Wales to stop cars getting stuck in traffic. 6 We will build five new hospitals in Wales We will pay for 1,200 more doctors and 3,000 more nurses to help you when you are sick. We will put more money into the Welsh NHS each and every year so that can do more to help people when they are ill. 7 We will help young We will make sure that people to learn by more money is used putting 5,000 more to help young people teachers into schools. to learn so that they can get a job. 8 We will build 100,000 new homes over the next 10 years. We want more people to have the help to buy their own home. We will also help people SOLD to buy houses that need repair to be used again. 9 We will fight global We will make sure that climate change and Wales does not add work to protect the more bad air to the environment. environment than we take out. We will use Wales’ coastline to create more electricity for everyone. 10 We believe that the best thing for Wales is that we work closely together with Scotland, England and Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom. We do not think that Wales leaving the United Kingdom will help to support people to find a job or to pay for our hospitals and schools. 11 We want more people We will try to reduce to keep their money taxes for people in that they work for. So Wales if more people that they can spend it have a job. on what they want to. We will give more We will not increase money to local taxes or create new councils so that they ones. do not increase your council tax. £ £ £ £ 12 We believe that Wales is at a crossroads. Your vote on the 6th May will decide if we take a positive path to recovery with us. Or if we stay as we are under Labour. ✗ Promoted by Tom James on behalf of the Welsh Conservative Party, both of Unit 5, Pro-copy Business Centre, Parc Ty Glas, Cardiff, CF14 5DU. 13.
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