Welsh Labour launches poll pledges

7 April 2011 Last updated at 06:03 GMT Labour has firmly set its sights on winning a majority on 5 May The Welsh Labour party is to officially launch its assembly election campaign with five key pledges.

They cover training for the young, more access to GPs, more schools funding, extra police community support officers and more free child health care.

In simultaneous events in north and south Wales, it will claim voters can chose one of two directions.

Those are forwards "towards fairness with Labour" or backwards "with more Tory cuts".

Labour, which was in coalition with Plaid Cymru in the last assembly government, has firmly set its sights on winning a majority on 5 May.

Continue reading the main story More apprenticeships and training for young people.Access to GP surgeries in the evenings and Saturdays.More funding for schools.An extra 500 police community support officers.More children benefiting from free childcare and health visiting.Source: Welsh Labour PartyOn Monday, Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones told reporters he would go it alone to form a single party government if Labour wins 31 of the assembly's 60 seats.

Opinion polls suggest Labour has recovered ground since a tally of 26 seats at the 2007 election forced it into coalition with Plaid.

Mr Jones said that based on the feedback the party had received on the campaign trail, a "comfortable working majority is in our grasp".

He added there were at least seven seats "in play" at this election.

The Welsh Labour campaign will be launched simultaneously in two target seats that Labour lost to Plaid in 2007

Mr Jones will be in Aberconwy and shadow Welsh secretary Peter Hain will be in Llanelli - both seats currently held by Plaid Cymru.

The party has split its pledges into five for a fairer future, and five to keep.

Labour is the last of the assembly's four main parties to officially launch their campaigns.

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