Interview: The First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Today Adam and Chris talk to Eluned Morgan, the new first minister of Wales, about her upbringing at the heart of Welsh politics, the working relationship with a new Westminster government, 20mph speed limits and the tough job of uniting Welsh labour after a tumultuous year.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Now, Chris, I like creating a new tradition on newscast.
0:08.0	Oh yes.
0:09.0	And we've got the tradition of interviewing...
0:10.5	I like that of a new tradition new tradition. A new tradition.
0:13.0	Yeah, true, okay.
0:14.0	I get your point.
0:15.0	All right, so the tradition that was burgeoning
0:18.0	was that when there's a new first minister of Wales,
0:20.0	they come in and do an interview or a new newscast.
0:22.0	Yeah, and it happens about every three months. Well, this is the thing, this tradition. they come in and do an interview or newscast.
0:22.6	Yeah, and it happens about every three months.
0:24.0	Well, this is the thing, this tradition is becoming quite regular now.
0:27.1	So just do the backstory of like why there's another new First Minister of Wales.
0:31.5	Yeah, so Mark Drakeford, who was the First Minister of Wales. Yeah, so Mark Drakeford who was the first Minister of Wales and indeed was even in this calendar year.
0:38.0	He announced he was going to stand down and he did and there was a race to replace him and
0:41.6	Vaughan Geffing who newscasters might recall
0:43.6	was the health minister during the pandemic he became the economy minister and he
0:48.7	won and he became first minister but it's fair to say the atmosphere in Welsh labor was not entirely sort of brotherly and sisterly and
0:57.0	And I didn't last very long.
1:00.0	It was almost a parallel and neither side will like this comparison but to the whole
1:06.4	Boris Johnson Liz Trus Rizzi Sunak thing where the electorate elect one leader and then in the blink of an eye you have another one who doesn't last five minutes,
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