The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Dr James Davies MP, lambasted the Labour Welsh Government at the weekend, which he said "has inflicted so much damage" during the 25 years it has been governing Wales.
Opening the second day of the Welsh Conservative Party Conference in Newport on Saturday, James, who is the MP for the Vale of Clwyd, accused the Welsh Government of being "increasingly out of its depth and detached from the needs of our communities", highlighting their failure to manage a safe NHS, their assault on the tourism sector and their unpopular and unenforceable plans to introduce a 20mph default speed limit in built up areas.
He said:
"To have been a Junior Minister in the Welsh Office since October has been an immense honour.
"As a North Walian it gives me particular satisfaction to be able to articulate the needs of North Wales at Westminster during a time when a quarter of a century of Labour Welsh Government has inflicted so much damage.
"We see a devolved administration increasingly out of its depth and detached from the needs of our communities, whether that's its apparent inability to manage a safe National Health Service, its insistence on putting political ideology ahead of the needs of schools, its assault on the tourism sector, or its war on the motorist. And not only is the Welsh Government ploughing ahead with its unpopular and unenforceable 20mph limit in built up areas, but the Roads Review, essentially a ban on new roads, is set to be incredibly damaging and out of touch with reality.
"How can they not understand that for so many parts of Wales the car is virtually indispensable and that Britain already has one of the most ambitious decarbonisation targets in place for vehicles? It's no wonder that even some Labour politicians are calling for the devolution of decisions over roads from Cardiff to North Wales.
"At a time when Labour's focus in Wales continues to be on expanding the number of politicians in Cardiff Bay, adopting separatist policy, including worryingly trying to acquire powers over policing and justice, it falls to us as Conservatives to forge a brighter future."
James concluded his speech by introducing the Minister of State for Security in the Home Office, Tom Tugendhat, to the stage.
