A Reform MS has clashed with Wales’ finance minister, suggesting she should “hand over the reins to someone more competent”.

Cai Parry-Jones, Reform’s shadow finance minister, blamed Ceredigion Penfro MS Elin Jones for the first-ever Welsh Government budget defeat - and highlighted her voting against her own government twice by mistake.

He said when the government needed to negotiate with Reform for the next supplementary budget, it sent the minister for government effectiveness instead of Ms Jones.

Mr Parry-Jones also claimed he has a source saying the “exact same thing” happened with the Labour negotiations.

He added: “The First Minister said he had learnt lessons over the summer. The lesson, it appears, is to sideline you.

“So, Minister, who is actually running the Welsh Government's finances? And given it clearly isn't you, is it not time to officially hand over the reins to someone more competent?”

Accusing Mr Parry-Jones of trivialising the questions from the opposition spokespeople, Ms Jones said: “When you've been here 27 years and you've only managed to vote wrong twice, then maybe I can come back to you and see what your record will be like in 27 years.”

She continued: “There are really important questions that could be asked at this point, and you've asked whether it's Dafydd Trystan [Davies] or myself that turned up to a meeting with you.

“I am the minister for finance.

“There are others in this government who will also be negotiating with people across this Senedd, both on funding and on legislation.

“We do not work as a silo in this government; we work as a team.”

Ms Jones accidentally voted against her own Government during a vote in the Senedd on to backing the Welsh Government's call to speed up investment in rail infrastructure in Wales.