Vaughan Gething to be new Welsh First Minister – watch what he’s offering
Vaughan Gething to be new Welsh First Minister
The winner of the Welsh Labour leadership Vaughan Gething. It was announced Saturday March 16.
The outgoing first minister, Mark Drakeford, steps down from the post next week.
In his acceptance speech, Vaughan Gething says he will be the “first black leader in any European country”.
Vaughan Gething, Wales’ economy minister and a former solicitor, was born in Zambia and raised in England before studying in Wales.
Gething ran against Wales’ Education Minister Jeremy Miles, also a solicitor, who was born and brought up in the mining town of Pontarddulais.
Gething health minister between 2016 and May 2021, and oversaw Wales’ initial response to Covid.
The Welsh conservatives congratulated Vaughan Gething’s victory – up to a point.
The party’s leader in the Welsh Parliament, Andrew RT Davies, said “Wales can expect more of the same with Vaugh Gething as first minister.
He said the Senedd member for Cardiff South and Penarth “part of a Labour Welsh government that has presided over record NHS waiting lists.
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