Vaughan Gething to face vote of no confidence

Local TV

Vaughan Gething has already had a tumultuous reign as first minister, and it seems it is only getting more difficult. It has been announced he will be facing a vote of no confidence in his leadership and may be out of the door as quickly as he was in. This is what the vote can mean for both the Senedd and general election campaign.

Transcript

00:00 As ever, not only have I acted within the rules, but I've also recognised the points

00:05 that a number of members have made, which is why there's a process within my own party

00:10 to look at the future rules, to understand the tests that everyone needs to meet.

00:15 Cast your minds back only two months ago, and Vaughan Gething had just been elected

00:19 to the role of First Minister. He is the first black person to hold a government leadership

00:23 position anywhere in Europe, and promised hope and a commitment to devolution during

00:28 his time as First Minister. It didn't take long though, all of a few hours after being

00:32 elected, to feel the backlash of the infamous £200,000 donation from a company previously

00:37 convicted of illegally dumping waste. This has been the major sticking point during his

00:42 time as First Minister. He's answered countless questions over whether he would give the donation

00:47 back, and every time he has stuck to his word that it was legal and above board.

00:53 The time now though has come to ultimately face the questions over that donation, with

00:56 a vote of no confidence to take place next week over his leadership. Labour have 30 seats

01:02 out of 60 in the Senate, so if he has full support of his party, the vote of no confidence

01:06 will not pass. All it might take though is an abstention from one of his party, and for

01:12 all the other parties to vote against him to go wrong for Gething. The vote isn't binding

01:17 though, so even if it were to turn out he loses, he wouldn't necessarily have to give

01:21 up his position. But this would be an incredibly uncomfortable situation to find himself in

01:26 and would continuously face an uphill struggle to get on with the work he has set out to

01:30 do.

01:32 For the wider Labour party it all comes at an incredibly unfortunate time as they are

01:36 knee deep in the UK general election campaign. UK Labour leader Siddhiya Starmer has already

01:41 spoken in support of Vaughan Gething, so there will be hope from Labour members across the

01:46 country that this decision does not come to harm their election chances. In such a short

01:52 period of time, Vaughan Gething has seen a real roller coaster and proves that nothing

01:55 is safe in politics.

01:57 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Category

Transcript

Recommended