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Welsh Conservatives Press Release

Welsh Conservatives will tomorrow call on Labour and Plaid Cymru to stand up for their constituents and vote to halt Post Office closures.

The party has tabled a motion calling on all members of the National Assembly to unite against the Westminster government’s post office closure programme.

It follows a Conservative motion in the Commons last month on the same issue which saw Gordon Brown’s majority cut to just 20.

Nineteen Labour MPs backed the motion and voted against the Government.

But despite campaigning to save post offices in their own Welsh constituencies, almost all Welsh Labour MPs backed the Government.

Several Government MPs were accused of hypocrisy following the vote – after publicly campaigning to save local Post Offices in their constituencies, then abstaining or voting against the motion.

A third of the Welsh post office network will have closed under Labour by the end of the current consultation period.

Some 324 branches in Wales have already closed since Labour came to power in 1997.

Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s Assembly debate Shadow Social Justice Minister and North Wales AM Mark Isherwood said:

“Welsh Conservatives believe this is an important issue, and we will continue to fight to stop this harsh closure programme.

“For the politicians who say they are against the cuts, our party is giving them the chance to do something about it.

“Labour MPs have already betrayed voters by campaigning against Post Office closures in their constituencies but doing nothing about it at Westminster.

“Communities across Wales will suffer if these closures go ahead, and it will be the most vulnerable in our societies that come off worse.

“If Labour MPs have not got the bottle to stop the closure programme, then their Assembly Members have a chance to join with us and send a clear message by voting here to stop the cuts.”