Leanne Wood has sent a letter calling the First Minister patronising after she was compared to Jacob Rees-Mogg in First Ministers’ Questions.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0leader of Plaid Cymru said she was the victim of a “farcical personal attack” and the tone Labour ministers use towards women in the chamber is unacceptable.<\/p>\n
She sent the letter a day after the First Ministers’ Questions – where she described the bill to leave the EU as a “dodgy deal”. The First Minster said she sounded like the staunch Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg.<\/p>\n
The comment caused an uproar in the Senedd.<\/p>\n
The Government said Plaid Cymru’s response was “unfortunate” after the First Minister had given her a “genuine offer” of collaboration.<\/p>\n
Leanne Wood argues in the letter the comment was part of a pattern of dismissive language being used towards women by the Labour frontbench.<\/p>\n
She said:\u00a0“This pattern of behaviour is demeaning our institution and the offices of state which you currently occupy.”<\/p>\n
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What was the disagreement about?<\/strong><\/p>\n The clash between the two leaders was over the EU Withdrawal Bill\u00a0 which is set to come into force when Britain leaves the EU in a year’s time.<\/p>\n The Bill will allow the UK Parliament to approve and amend all the EU laws in our legal system when we leave the EU.<\/p>\n Plaid Cymru wants more EU powers returned to Wales after Brexit. Hence why Leanne Wood sees Labour agreeing to the Conservative Bill as a betrayal of Wales.<\/p>\n But Carwyn Jones argues the UK parliament always has had complete control over legislation regardless and Welsh laws will not be changed by the UK parliament without consent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Leanne Wood has sent a letter calling the First Minister patronising after she was compared to Jacob Rees-Mogg in First Ministers’ Questions. The\u00a0leader of Plaid Cymru said she was the victim of a “farcical personal attack” and the tone Labour ministers use towards women in the chamber is unacceptable. She sent the letter a day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744,750],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20870,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions\/20870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}