Eluned Morgan selected as Wales's new first minister after Vaughan Gething's resignation

Welsh Labour leader Baroness Morgan is the first woman to hold the position.

Eluned Morgan has been selected as Wales's first minister - the first woman to hold the role. Baroness Morgan was confirmed as first minister in a vote of Senedd members on Tuesday morning. The Welsh parliament was recalled from summer recess for a special meeting to vote for a new first minister after the resignation of Vaughan Gething as Welsh Labour leader. The new first minister received 28 votes, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies secured 15 and Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth received 12 nominations. Mr Gething faced questions over a controversial £200k donation and the sacking of a minister, before four members of his government quit. The contest to succeed Mr Gething had been expected to run until September. But Baroness Morgan, who has been Wales's health secretary since 2021, won the ensuing leadership election unopposed. She stood on a joint ticket with rural affairs secretary Huw Irranca-Davies, who she is expected to appoint as her deputy. The pair have pledged "strength, stability and unity", with a focus on "improving the things that matter most" for people across the country.

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1:54 Who is Wales's new first minister?
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[maisondusuave]

For "won a scholarship" read selected by tentacles of WEF.

[paulwooton]

Why even mention the "first-female" any more. It's like mentioning her height or other meaningless attributes.
Likely most people are more interested in whether she has a knack for stopping illegal immigration.

[paulwillard]

It’s not MPs it’s Assembly members or members of the synod because it’s the devolved assembly, and they have have 15 members of the Synod .

[AndyJarman]

Why is being the first "female", or the first "black" or the "youngest", or "mother" of anything a great achievement?

If this political position is so valuable, if it is sought after, why are people who are not common in these positions being selected for it?

Obviously it is a token position in a token organisation.

We need to wake up, these are not GOOD signs.

None of these people have real life experiences, they are intergenerational professional politicians.

Why does anyone think they will know what normal people's concerns are? They are all ridiculously single minded in what the solutions to everything is.

This "Welsh" assembly, as though Wales is the same and cohesive politically and socially from north to south, that it does actually exist, is a confection, a pointless squandering of resources.

The whole "devolution" project is Woke, Woke, Woke as all get out.

[mariannehancock]

The comments are sensible but the pronunciation of personal and place names are astonishing.You have to give him credit for his fearlessness in going at the words like a bull at a gate. He did pronounce 'Plaid Cymru' faultlessly though.

[peterwright]

Never heard of her she they them or whatever is acceptable 😂