Labour offering ‘austerity painted red’, says Plaid

Party focuses on economy with founding goal of Welsh independence absent from leader’s opening remarks

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Labour is offering “more austerity but painted red”, Plaid Cymru leaders have said as they launched the party’s manifesto.

Speaking in Cardiff, the Plaid Cymru Westminster leader and candidate for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Liz Saville Roberts, said Labour was offering no “radical manifesto”.

Invest in the NHS and recruit 500 GPs.

Launch a new cancer strategy.

Increase child benefit by £20 a week.

Increase windfall taxes and devolve the crown estate.

Equalise capital gains tax with income tax, raising between £12bn and £15bn.

Investigate increasing higher earners’ national insurance contributions.

Support introducing a wealth tax.

Assume control of Wales’s natural resources, waters and land.