At First Minister’s Questions (FMQs) today (July 1), Darren Millar MS challenged the First Minister to back the UK Government’s decision to proscribe the Palestine Action Group. Eluned Morgan failed three times to do so.

Darren Millar also called on the First Minister to condemn “hateful and vile chants” broadcast at taxpayer expense by the BBC from Glastonbury. The chants of “death, death to the IDF” and for Palestine to be free “from the river to the sea” could also be heard at the protest attended by Labour and Plaid politicians outside of the Senedd today.

The First Minister was also asked whether she would end funding for the Green Man Festival, which has benefitted from well in excess of £4 million in financial support from the Welsh Government, if they decide to allow rap group Kneecap to perform. Again, she refused to do so.

Commenting, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Darren Millar MS said:

“People will have been horrified to see chants of ‘death, death to the IDF’ at Glastonbury and again today outside the Senedd, with Labour and Plaid politicians in attendance.

“The fact that the taxpayer-funded BBC chose to broadcast such vile and hateful chants to viewers across the country is an absolute disgrace.

“The chants must be condemned, but the Welsh Labour Government must also defund the taxpayer-funded Green Man Festival, if they allow Kneecap to perform, because they have called for violence against elected representatives, expressed antisemitic rhetoric, and displayed a flag in support of Hezbollah terrorists in the past.”