Europe's first black leader
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, we speak to Europe's first black leader - Vaughan Gething, the new First Minister of Wales. In an extended conversation, we talk his rise to the top of Welsh politics amidst experiences of racism, his political motivations and what is next for Wales if Labour return to power.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producers: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly and Arvind Badewal
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | People judge you differently because of how you look. |
| 0:16.6 | And I'd say that comes with a responsibility rather than a burden. |
| 0:20.1 | I think it's balance of when are you a black politician talking about black issues? |
| 0:25.1 | And when are you a politician who is black? |
| 0:27.1 | And I regularly said, I think you have to be able to do both. |
| 0:29.7 | That is Vaughan Getheng, the new First Minister of Wales. |
| 0:33.1 | It is a high office, a big achievement in itself, of course. |
| 0:35.9 | But even bigger, even more remarkable |
| 0:38.2 | that Gething is not just the first black first minister of a UK nation, arguably the most |
| 0:43.6 | senior black politician in our history, but he is in fact the first black leader of any |
| 0:48.9 | European country. |
| 0:50.5 | And yet, for most outside Wales, at least, even within the rest of the UK, he is an unknown figure. |
| 0:56.0 | His story, his politics untold. |
| 0:58.3 | We thought it might be a good idea to change that. |
| 1:00.8 | So we invited the new First Minister to come into the newsagent studio to reflect on a political journey that started in Zambia, |
| 1:07.9 | the son of a vet of an Ogmour by seafarer and Zambian chicken farmer mother, |
| 1:12.4 | which took him to the hills of Monmouthshire and eventually to the pinnacle of Welsh political power. |
| 1:18.0 | Cardiff Bay. It's Lewis here. Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:24.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:33.8 | We're joined now by the First Minister of Wales, the new, newly minted First Minister of Wales, Warn getting. |
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