SENEDD members painted up the red on red row within the Labour Party over Westminster ruling out the devolution of policing in today’s First Minister’s Questions.

Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth said the Welsh Labour government had just last week said it was seeking to secure the devolution of policing and justice in their entirety.

But when Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood outlined what she described as the biggest reform of policing in 200 years she said no to devolving policing.

“I struggle to work out which is worse, the blatant disregard towards Wales shown by Labour MPs, or the Labour Welsh government’s sheer inability to influence their Westminster colleagues,” Mr ap Iorwerth said.

FM Eluned Morgan said: “We are not interested in policing to be devolved as a journey to independence, we’re interested in making sure that it’s about responding to the needs of people within our communities.”

“It’s clear that Labour MPs and Keir Starmer have no interest in what’s right for Wales, and it is always No on the Crown Estate, No on fair funding, No on HS2 money and now No on policing, too,” the Plaid leader said.

Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar said last week “you painted a terrifying picture of the threat to the United Kingdom posed by Plaid Cymru.”

Mr Millar said her government has been joined at the hip to those very same separatists, as you called them, through a co-operation agreement.

The First Minister said she was not going to apologise for getting her government’s Budget through thanks to Plaid’s support.

“That’s not something to be ashamed of, that is showing practical responsibility,” Ms Morgan said.