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Price warns of Tory 'regression' Price warns of Tory 'regression'
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Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price will urge his party to focus on the "dangers" for Wales of a Tory general election win.Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price will urge his party to focus on the "dangers" for Wales of a Tory general election win.
He will describe the future as a "battlefield" between the "progressive left" of Plaid and the Conservative "regressive right". He will describe a future "battlefield" between the "progressive left" of Plaid and a Conservative "regressive right".
The MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr will tell his party's conference in Llandudno that Plaid must win that debate "for the most vulnerable". He will tell his party's conference in Llandudno Plaid must win that debate "for the most vulnerable".
Conservatism, he will argue, would seek to put a "break" on progress in Wales. Meanwhile, delegates applauded a Scottish National Party speaker who defended the Scottish Government's release of the Lockerbie bomber.
Mr Price, the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, will argue that Conservatives would seek to put a "brake" on progress in Wales.
Plaid is making more attacks on the Conservatives at this conference than for many years, anticipating a defeat of Gordon's Brown Labour government on polling day.Plaid is making more attacks on the Conservatives at this conference than for many years, anticipating a defeat of Gordon's Brown Labour government on polling day.
On the final day of the conference, Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Iwan and parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd will also address delegates, together with health spokesperson Helen Mary Jones.On the final day of the conference, Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Iwan and parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd will also address delegates, together with health spokesperson Helen Mary Jones.
On Friday, party leader Ieuan Wyn Jones said that only Plaid could provide a new style of politics and announced a two-year consultation with voters, aimed to prepare policies at the 2011 Welsh assembly election.
  • In the morning session, the Plaid leadership succeeded in watering down a motion which would have called for the party to oppose the development of the defence training academy at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan.
    		• 'Celtic bloc'
    On Friday, party leader Ieuan Wyn Jones said that only Plaid could provide a new style of politics and announced a two-year consultation with voters, aimed to prepare policies at the 2011 Welsh assembly election.
    Otherwise, the Scottish National Party's leader in the House of Commons, Angus Robertson, said a "record number of Plaid and SNP MPs" needed to be elected to form a "Celtic bloc".
    Mr Robertson said this could provide a "block on cuts" to services like the NHS, and on "financial attacks" on devolved governments in Wales and Scotland.
    There was repeated and warm applause when Mr Robertson defended the SNP Scottish Government's decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of killing the people who died when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in 1988.
    Mr Robertson insisted that by making the "difficult and correct semi-judicial decision, regardless of party political considerations, that Scottish democracy grew in stature".
    Earlier, the Plaid leadership succeeded in watering down a motion which would have called for the party to oppose the development of the defence training academy at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan.
    The amendment passed "recognises the opposition within Plaid Cymru" to the scheme".The amendment passed "recognises the opposition within Plaid Cymru" to the scheme".