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UK government made Wales feel like ‘second class citizens’ during pandemic

Rishi Sunak’s refusal to help fund an early firebreak in Wales was ‘a disappointment’, the Covid inquiry heard today

By Ruby Lott-Lavigna
UK government made Wales feel like ‘second class citizens’ during pandemic
A woman waits for a bus in Merthyr Tydfil during Wales' firebreak lockdown. | Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images
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The UK government’s handling of the pandemic made Welsh people feel like “second-class citizens”, a Welsh minister has told the UK Covid inquiry.

Eluned Morgan, Wales’ minister for health and wellbeing, said on Tuesday that she felt ministers in Westminster had failed to properly support Wales’ firebreak lockdown, which was introduced on 23 October 2020 to stem the spread of the virus.

The lockdown lasted two weeks, but Morgan suggested it might have been longer if the UK government had been willing to provide more financial help.

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