Gething Resigns As Welsh First Minister

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the resignation of Welsh First Minister, Vaughan Gething.

Just four months into the job, Vaughan Gething has quit his position as First Minister after four members of his cabinet resigned, calling for him to go.

Since taking over in March, the FM has faced criticism for accepting a campaign donation from a businessman convicted of environmental offences. He denies any wrongdoing, and says ‘my integrity matters, I have not compromised it.’ Adam and Chris discuss whether this is part of a wider pattern on instability in UK politics. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Elliot Ryder and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, here is your second quickfire episode of newscasts of the day
0:09.2	to mark the second resignation of the day, and it's about Vaughn Gething who's
0:14.0	announced he's stepping down as first minister of Wales and leader of labour in
0:18.8	Wales and it's been a pretty long running story so plenty to get our teeth
0:22.4	into in this second helping
0:24.2	of newscast newscast from the BBC
0:30.0	hello it's Adam in the newscast studio. So a few months ago you may remember that
0:36.9	Vaughn was crowned first minister of Wales after winning the leadership
0:42.4	contest there following the
0:44.1	departure of his predecessor and it was quite a milestone moment because it was the
0:49.0	first minister of a UK nation who was black and he came on newscast to talk about how exciting that was and we'll play a clip of that in a minute.
0:57.6	But his tenure has ended after a hundred and something days having pretty much been dogged by something of a
1:06.1	scandal ever since he got the post so we will discuss that on this episode and
1:11.2	here is how Von Gething announced the news on on this
1:17.4	morning,
1:18.4	and here is how Von Gething announced the news on Tuesday, mid-morning.
1:16.9	I have this morning taken the difficult decision
1:21.3	to begin the process of stepping down as the leader of worst labour and as a result
1:26.4	the first minister. Having been elected as the leader of my party in March this year. I had hoped that over the summer a period of reflection,
1:37.0	rebuilding and renewal could take place under my leadership.
1:43.0	I recognize now that this is not possible.
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