Tories launch Welsh election campaign promising lower taxes
BBCThe Welsh Conservatives have launched their Senedd election campaign promising lower taxes and more jobs if they win in May.
Darren Miller, the party's leader in the Welsh Parliament, said the Tories were the only party that offered Welsh voters "real, credible, positive change".
At the launch event in Swansea, Millar said public services were letting "a lot of people down" as a result of 27 years of Labour "supported by the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru".
Voters across Wales go to the polls to elect 96, up from 60, new Members of the Senedd (MSs) on 7 May.
The party said it will save the average working family £450 per year with a pledge to cut the basic rate of income tax by 1p.
It also said it will boost jobs and build an M4 relief road in south-east Wales if it wins the Senedd election.
Millar told BBC Wales that voters had to back his party if they wanted "real, credible change, positive change".
He said: "We're the only party with a credible plan to cut people's taxes, put more money back into their pockets, and to help businesses create the employment and the wealth that our country so desperately needs.
"Our public services aren't working. Schools and hospitals are letting a lot of people down and that's a result of 27 years of Labour supported by Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats."
Millar added: "If you don't have a healthy economy, [then] you don't have the resources, the revenue in your taxes to be able to invest in your public services.
"The Conservative Party understands this, unfortunately, the parties of the left in particular do not, and that's one of the big distinctions that we have."
