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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said the government's plan was just a "short-term sticking plaster" and both he and the Green Party have called for public ownership as the only option.

Shadow transport secretary Gareth Bacon described the government's announcement as a "pothole sticking plaster".

His finance spokesman Sam Rowlands said the budget was "merely a sticking plaster over the problems that far too many people face in Wales".

"Teachers have been putting sticking plasters on education for too long," she said.

Six months ago, you were elected on a platform that promised an end to short-term sticking plaster solutions.