Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth willing to 'take the fight' to Keir Starmer

Rhun ap Iorwerth says he will "call out" the Labour UK government, if it fails to "do the right thing for Wales", and "take the fight" to the prime minister. Speaking on BBC Politics Wales after Plaid Cymru won 43 seats in the Senedd election to become the largest party, he said the UK government had two choices. "They can punish Wales for the way that we voted in this election, or they can reflect and say our indifference has been found out," he said. UK government Secretary of State for Wales, Jo Stevens, said "our position has always been if it will benefit and make people's lives better in Wales then of course we will do things". The Welsh nationalist party promised to "stand up for Wales" during the election campaign and ap Iorwerth is almost certainly going to become the party's first first minister in the coming days. He said he hoped that the conversation between him, the UK government and Stevens "will be able to happen as soon as possible". His demands for further devolution, he said, "could be brought together in a new Wales bill for Westminster". The legislation, which could be brought forward by a Plaid Cymru MP, would be "dealing with fair funding, that HS2 unfairness