WELSH language campaigners are demanding the Welsh government step up its efforts to expand the use of the language to one million people — almost one third of the population.

Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith (the Welsh Language Society) left a New Year’s card at Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan’s office in Haverfordwest yesterday warning that use of the language was falling even in traditional strongholds — despite the government having set a 2050 deadline to achieve its one million target. 
 

Cymdeithas yr Iaith chair Josef Gnagbo said: “The government is not taking its own target of a million Welsh speakers by 2050 seriously. The results of the 2021 census and the government's response to them show that.