PLAID Cymru has responded to the Queen's Speech stating that the Westminster Government has "no majority, no mandate and now no plan".

Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts, said: "The Prime Minister's legislative programme is focused far more on soundbites than substance. It is a deficient plan for defining times. The UK Government has been completely exposed as having no majority, no mandate and now no plan."

Carmarthenshire East and Dinefwr MP Jonathan Edwards added: "Plaid Cymru's alternative Queen's Speech is a genuine and realistic list of proposals to allow Wales to grow and our citizens to prosper.

"We have seen an underwhelming prospectus from the Westminster government which is nothing more than a list of soundbites accompanied by a very real threat of London taking away power from the Welsh Government.

"Plaid Cymru will work to strengthen this legislative programme by placing a series of amendments, not least to protect police funding, our agricultural sector, national finances and fuel poverty, with the Welsh national interest at their heart.

"Plaid Cymru will not stand by and allow Westminster to treat Wales as a second class nation."

In the new Plaid group at Westminster, Mr Edwards will be leading on treasury, foreign affairs and defence and new Ceredigion MP, Ben Lake, leading on environment, food and rural affairs, constitutional affairs and culture, media and sport.