New Welsh cabinet - Mick Bates reaction

Release/Rhyddhau: 31/05/07

Contact/Cyswllt: Mick Bates
029 2089 8342/ 01686 625527/ mick.bates@wales.gov.uk 

Reacting to the announcement of the new cabinet, Mick Bates, Assembly Member for Montgomeryshire, said:

"Rhodri Morgan's M4 corridor Cabinet shows no new faces and risks having few new ideas. It is a government which will struggle to convince voters that it can serve all of Wales, when all the ministers come from seats in the South. It used to be the case that only Mid Wales was missed out - now the North is missing out on Ministers as well.

"Perhaps Rhodri has been conscious that the cabinet's work is likely to be time limited. After the Lib Dem's voted in favour of perusing a coalition government with Plaid and the Tories on the weekend, it may not be to long before we see a new government in Wales "