By Teleri Glyn Jones

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When asked how radical he was really going to be, he insisted it was not business as usual.

He said: “I want a step change in government attitudes looking at what answers can be put in place to deal with the problems in Wales”.

He spoke about a “revolution in preventative health”, getting to grips with “Labour’s terrible legacy on waiting times” and “changing the way literacy and numeracy are addressed in schools”.

Rejecting the idea these might be tinkering around the edges, ap Iorwerth pointed to the party’s Welsh child payment policy which has been compared with a similar Scottish scheme introduced by the SNP.

“One of the things we’ve been asking Labour to do for years is genuinely address the problem, or the scandal of child poverty,” he said.

“We are going to be introducing a direct payment scheme in order to bring children out of poverty.

“That’s radical politics, dealing with the issues that are causing such scars within our communities.”

A Welsh Labour spokesperson said: “We believe that ending child poverty must be an absolute priority for all levels of government.

“But Plaid Cymru’s fantasy economics is not the answer. They try to block money for free school meals and childcare, yet want to spend money without saying where it would come from. As always with Plaid, the sums don’t add up.”