The campaign for a Yes vote in March’s referendum on further powers for the Welsh Assembly has been launched.
The cross-party “Yes for Wales” campaign was launched yesterday at the University of Glamorgan by chairman Roger Lewis.
Mr Lewis, who is also chief executive of the WRU, said he believed that granting Wales further powers to make its own laws will foster a “no excuse culture” for Welsh politics.
He said: “Time, money, energy and imagination are being exhausted on making an over-complicated law-making system work.
“In times like this we cannot afford to waste a moment continually arguing about the way laws are made.
“It is time for the assembly to be given the tools necessary to get on with the job it was elected to, so that all our energies can be focused on forging a better future.”
The No campaign against Wales having more law-making powers is being led by the cross-party True Wales group – which has yet to hold its launch.
A True Wales spokeswoman criticised the location of the launch attacked the Welsh Assembly Government’s record on university funding.
She said: “Politicians are asking the people of Wales to give them more powers as a vote of confidence, but why should the latter have any confidence in a government with the current educational spending record?”
“How can our country’s economy flourish if its successive governments short-change our children’s future by chronic under-investment in our schools and universities?”
The people of Wales will vote in the referendum on March 3.