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| Labour's Carwyn Jones on 'hope and despair' choice | Labour's Carwyn Jones on 'hope and despair' choice |
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| Only Labour can stop the Tories from decimating public services, the first minister has told the Welsh Labour conference in Swansea. | Only Labour can stop the Tories from decimating public services, the first minister has told the Welsh Labour conference in Swansea. |
| With all eyes on May's general election, Carwyn Jones condemned David Cameron's Conservatives as being even more extreme than Margaret Thatcher. | With all eyes on May's general election, Carwyn Jones condemned David Cameron's Conservatives as being even more extreme than Margaret Thatcher. |
| He said voters had a choice between "hope and despair". | He said voters had a choice between "hope and despair". |
| Later, Labour leader Ed Miliband will launch an attack on tax avoidance for damaging the "fabric of society". | Later, Labour leader Ed Miliband will launch an attack on tax avoidance for damaging the "fabric of society". |
| He is expected to say the row over the HSBC bank has crystallised a feeling of "deeply divisive injustice" over the way Britain is run. | He is expected to say the row over the HSBC bank has crystallised a feeling of "deeply divisive injustice" over the way Britain is run. |
| The bank is accused of helping wealthy clients avoid or evade tax. | The bank is accused of helping wealthy clients avoid or evade tax. |
| 'Fairness and respect' | |
| In his morning keynote speech, Mr Jones hailed the Welsh government's record on jobs, investment and tuition fees as evidence of what a UK Labour government could achieve. | |
| He said the Conservatives "denigrate" the NHS in order to dismantle it, and insisted Labour's record on health in Wales was better than that of the Westminster coalition running it in England. | |
| Mr Jones also called for a more "tolerant" society which could debate immigration with "fairness and respect", and not let "right-wing, dog-whistling xenophobes drag us down to their level". | |
| A £40m scheme with the aim of helping people set up 10,000 new businesses creating 17,000 jobs over the next five years was also announced. | |
| Watch the conference live online. | Watch the conference live online. |