Vaughan Gething to resign as Wales First Minister after ministers rebels

The Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething is to stand down after four members of his government resigned.

He had faced controversy around a donation made to his leadership campaign and lost a confidence vote in the Senedd last month.

Having made history as the first black leader of a European country, he'll now become the shortest serving Welsh first minister ever.
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[claudioricci]

He should have resigned weeks ago but instead he kept us Gething

[RealOGfikey]

A narcissist who couldn't and wouldn't admit he is wrong and corrupt. If his skin colour was somehow a factor in this then he wouldn't have become leader in the first place.
It was his actions and real journalism in Wales that exposed that corruption that brought him down. That's how you deal with people like him.

[wayneeldred]

He was elected by the Senudd, now there is the biggest worry, typical poor judgement by a body of people who simply have no clue what is best for Wales.

[Surreptitious_]

Another pretender gone. Thankfully. Lets get back to basics please.

[UKsoldier]

With family in Wales I can only say they are all thrilled with this decision. Please Labour let people in Wales live normal lives! Why do you have to control everything!!?

[_Pence]

Took money from the wrong corrupt businessman. Silly Billy

[blackbeard]

He comes across as an incompetent bully.

[prestolee]

It’s gone really well in the UK for those leaders only chosen because of Equality of Outcome - Oh, I crave the good old days when people succeed on merit not skin colour.

[helenlloyd]

Best bit of news I've heard for a while. He wasn't for Wales our people, culture, history or heritage heritage. As many politicians of today, career politicians.

[ianherd]

another one with a large immediate pension, probably!

[Steven-hqgo]

It's a shame most people vote for politicians that hate them.

[jjrider]

AND THERE IT IS !! - at 2:40, with boring predictability, he pulled the race-card.. I'm sure there's a person somewhere that might be mildly upset for a few seconds about Gething's resignation.. But I'm not..

[factsofmotivationofficial]

On a par with Truss, at least she went out on her principles. Gething wimpers away as a man not even his own party wanted under a cloud of corruption and bullying, playing the race card.

[nedbushcrafter]

Shows you how bad a labour government is

[brownjames]

He’s been a goner for weeks, his party were waiting till after the King’s visit to the Senedd last week to then make a move.

[wtc-ds]

He could always get a job on Channel 4 news.

[paddydaley]

£200, 000 on an internal election in Wales. Imagine Starmer accepting £4m for his leadership campaign for British Labour.

[ONeilRussell-lc]

Well, at least he lasted longer than Liz Truss did!🙃

[rampageclover]

As an Irishman, I look at our Celtic brothers and sisters across the pond in the valleys as well as up in the highlands and weep for them as they are going through the exact same thing as us….a debasement of heritage and identity through the systematic invasion of backward-thinking, resentful people who wanna take what doesn’t belong to them and remould it in their image…..

[atTheHop]

Hopefully, having this trend of non-white leaders across the UK is over, and we can now get on with business.