{"id":95692,"date":"2024-07-16T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/vaughan-gething-first-ministers-downfall-delivers-keir-starmer-first-headache\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:54:14","slug":"vaughan-gething-first-ministers-downfall-delivers-keir-starmer-first-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/vaughan-gething-first-ministers-downfall-delivers-keir-starmer-first-headache\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan Gething: First minister’s downfall delivers Keir Starmer first headache"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just when you\u2019d have been forgiven for thinking politics might quieten down a bit…<\/p>\n

The Welsh Labour government was for so long a case study in how the party could operate in power during its long years of opposition at Westminster.<\/p>\n

And yet here we are less than a fortnight into a UK Labour government, and the Welsh Labour government is imploding.<\/p>\n

So much for all that talk about bringing stability back to politics.<\/p>\n

Last week Vaughan Gething was sharing smiles here not just with the new prime minister but the King too.<\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s a goner, delivering Sir Keir Starmer a headache rather than a handshake.<\/p>\n

When I was here in March covering Mr Gething\u2019s victory, the seeds of his political demise were germinating before our eyes.<\/p>\n

The donations row had already sprouted and his defeated opponent, Jeremy Miles, legged it from the venue without so much as any warm words about the victor on camera.<\/p>\n

It was another sign of the cultivating anger, the political knotweed that would soon flourish and ensnare Vaughan Gething.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Along came the row about alleged leaking, a sacking, a confidence vote — and a first minister whose tenure up until today at least amounts to 2.4 times that of Liz Truss. Ouch.<\/p>\n

Westminster has generated its fair share of turbulence in the last decade.<\/p>\n

But it is far from unique as a source of turbulence in UK politics.<\/p>\n

In February, Michelle O\u2019Neill became first minister of Northern Ireland with Emma Little-Pengelly her deputy, after a long period without devolved government at Stormont.<\/p>\n

In March, we had a new first minister of Wales, when Mark Drakeford stood down and Vaughan Gething took the job.<\/p>\n

In April we had the resignation of the first minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf.<\/p>\n

He was replaced the following month by John Swinney. June was the quiet month then. Just the small matter of a general election campaign.<\/p>\n

And here we are in July, and Mr Gething is resigning.<\/p>\n

So will begin another leadership race, a new government in Wales, a new first minister and a new team of senior Welsh ministers.<\/p>\n

There will also be more arguments about Welsh Labour \u2013 its direction, its priorities, its capacity to govern effectively and its relationship with the UK party.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re watching this in Downing Street, it\u2019s the last thing you need.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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