By Gareth Lewis, political editor, Wales News
There is political risk in this for the first minister.
HS2 has become symbolic as much as an economic issue in Welsh politics, but there are no guarantees in anything we have heard today.
This is a proposal, not a concrete commitment. There is the hope for significant rail investment, but we do not know how much, and in any case spending decisions are in the hands of the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
The Welsh government will be hoping that any funding is at least equal, preferably more, to what they wanted from HS2 – £350m.
Political opponents are calling for more, and would like new investment on top of consequential HS2 funding.
And given that the first minister – in her own words – has pushed Keir Starmer so much on HS2 funding that he is “sick” of it, will voters feel she has done enough and be on board with the plans?
