In a separate interview with BBC Wales on Tuesday evening, Morgan repeatedly refused to directly answer questions about the home secretary’s remarks, or whether she would be able to persuade her Westminster colleagues to give her what she wanted.
Questioned whether Mahmood’s response was a kick in the teeth, Morgan said she had made her position on the devolution of policing “clear” in her speech.
Morgan had called for a host of devolution changes in her speech at Institute for Government, calling on Westminster colleagues to help prevent a pro-independence majority at the Senedd election.
The Welsh Conservatives’ Senedd leader Darren Millar said: “We’ve got a UK and Welsh Labour government more interested in fighting one another than fighting to improve the lives of the people of Wales.”
A Plaid Cymru spokesperson said Morgan had spent months “boasting about the benefits of the so-called ‘partnership in power’, and now she’s attempting to distance herself from Starmer as she realises how deeply unpopular he is”.
A Reform UK Wales spokesperson said: “Labour and Plaid want to spend the whole election talking about the constitution. This is the kind of trivial distraction that has led to soaring NHS waiting lists and plummeting educational outcomes here in Wales.”