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Plaid Cymru’s commitment to train and hire 1,000 new doctors is the most popular manifesto pledge made by any major party in Wales, a new survey has revealed.

Nearly half (48.5%) of people who responded to our online Google survey supported Plaid’s plan, followed in the popularity stakes by the 48.3% who backed Labour’s proposals for increased spending on education – this has also been a cornerstone of the Plaid and Lib Dem campaigns.

Despite nearly two decades of devolution, Westminster elections in Wales are still dominated by issues which are now the responsibility of the Assembly.

Parties in Wales are pushing Assembly issues in a Westminster election

AMs and not MPs are responsible for health and education but this has not stopped parties putting these issues at the heart of their election campaigns.

The latest survey, which is not a scientific poll, was conducted over the weekend and found 34.4% of Welsh respondents plan to vote for Labour, significantly ahead of the Tories (19%), Plaid (9.3%), the Lib Dems (4.3%) and Ukip 3.3%.

More than a quarter (25.64%) of people polled said they did not know how they would vote, or if they would vote.

While 15% of people who voted Conservative in 2015 were unsure who to vote for or if they will make the trip to the polling station, this was true for 9.1% of Labour voters, 17.4% of Lib Dem voters, 13.9% of Plaid voters and 18.2% of Ukip voters.

Popular policies with Welsh voters

Those who said they would vote Conservative liked most the manifesto commitment from the Tories to cut migration to the tens of thousands, with 65% of Tory voters backing that, compared to 19% of Labour voters, 13% of Lib Dem voters and 23% of Plaid voters.

Just under half of Tory voters support exiting the single market, which the Tories have committed to doing, compared to 7.2% of Labour voters, no Lib Dem voters, 14% of Plaid voters and 34% of UKIP voters.

More than seven out of 10 Lib Dem voters (74%) backed a second vote on Brexit once the final deal was known – a key party pledge – compared with 10% of Tories, 37% of Labour voters, 39% of Plaid voters and 13% of UKIP voters.

Less than a third (32%) of Lib Dem voters supported the Lib Dems plans to legalise cannabis, compared with 15% of Tories, 34% of Labour voters and 20% of Plaid voters.

Of Labour’s key election promises, the promise of higher taxes for those earning more than £80,000 was supported by 73% of Labour voters.

Plaid’s most popular policy – of recruiting 1,000 news doctors – was supported by 75% of Plaid voters, compared with 58% of Lib Dem voters, 62% of Labour voters and 37% of Conservative voters.

Overall, Labour’s vote appears to be holding up the strongest, with 81% of people who voted in 2015 for Labour planning to do the same this time; 68% of Conservative voters plan to voter Tory again, with 27% of Ukip’s 2015 voters planning to vote Conservative too.

Here are the most popular Westminster election policies in Wales

Train and hire 1,000 new doctors (Plaid, 48.5%)

Increased spending on education (Labour policy, 48% Lib Dem policy 39.2%)

Halting hospital closures (Labour, 46%)

£10 an hour minimum wage (Labour, 45.4%)

Billions in funding for schools and hospitals (Plaid 45.2%)

Recruiting 10,000 more mental health nurses (Conservatives, 45%)

Raising income tax for those on more than £80,000 (Labour, 41%)

Scrapping tuition fees (Labour and Green policy, 39.5%)

Removing private sector from the NHS (Green, 37%)

Capping energy prices (Conservatives, 37%)

1p on income tax to spend more on mental health (Lib Dems, 32%)

Here are Labour policies that struck a chord

(Image: Matthew Horwood)

Increased education spending (47.77%)

Halting hospital service closures (45.99%)

£10-an-hour minimum wage (45.35%)

Here are the most popular Conservative policies

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Recruiting 10,000 more mental health staff (45.08%)

Caps on energy prices (36.54%)

Cutting immigration to the tens of thousands (30.63%)

These Plaid Cymru policies were popular

Train and hire 1,000 new doctors 48.54%

Billions of funding for schools and hospitals 45.21%

Guarantee the rights of EU citizens in Wales 32.71%

Here are the most popular Lib Dem policies