THE Welsh Conservatives have hit out at plans for two households to be able to meet from next week saying the announcement should have been made last week to prevent another ’lost weekend’ for families.

Commenting on the First Minister’s announcement that families in Wales will soon be able to reunite under new rules allowing two households to join together to form one extended household, Angela Burns, the Shadow Health Minister, said: “Of course we Welsh Conservatives welcome this news – which is the formation of ‘social bubbles’ in all but name – but just last Friday, I questioned why we had to wait until this week to be given the decision. Had it been given then, it would have prevented another lost weekend for countless numbers of people in Wales.

“So many families in Wales need such a boost after so long apart, and so if there is science behind why the decision could not have been announced on Friday, then the First Minister should put it into the public domain.”