Cameron – ‘Tories party of NHS’

David Cameron visits Wales with seven days until polling day

David Cameron will join the Welsh assembly election campaign with a week to go until polling day.

The Prime Minister will campaign for the Conservatives in north Wales on Thursday.

The Liberal Democrats will be in the target seat of Montgomeryshire, Plaid will focus on education and Labour will campaign on community saftey.

Voters go to the polls to elect 60 assembly members on 5 May.

Mr Cameron’s visit comes a day after he attacked Labour’s handling of the NHS in Wales at question time in the House of Commons.

The Tories are the only one of the four biggest parties in the election promising to protect Wales’s health budget from inflation.

But they have faced questions about how they would fund the pledge from rivals who say it would mean bigger spending cuts for other departments.

Labour accused Mr Cameron of making “misleading claims” after he said the assembly government was cutting the NHS.

The prime minister told MPs: “Everyone in Wales needs to know – if they get another Labour-dominated assembly, they will get cuts in the NHS.”

Shadow Welsh secretary Peter Hain said: “David Cameron is kicking sand into the eyes of voters by trying to divert attention from his floundering plans to reorganise the NHS in England.”

Meanwhile on Thursday, Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones and other party candidates will promise “transformational” change for education on the campaign trail in Caernarfon.

Despite being in coalition together since 2007, Plaid has attacked Labour’s handling of the education portfolio.

Former Welsh Lib Dem leader Lord Carlile will be campaigning with his party in his old parliamentary constituency of Montgomeryshire.

The Lib Dems will want to avoid a repeat of last year’s general election on 5 May when they lost the seat to the Conservatives.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper will join Labour candidates in north Wales to highlight a pledge to pay for more police community support officers (PCSOs).

Labour says it can find £14m within the assembly government’s budget to provide 500 more police community support officers.

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