Health Minister Eluned Morgan is looking increasingly likely to become Wales’ first female first minister as she is expected to run for Labour leader unopposed. She said she had the strong support of her party with as many as 24 of the 30 current Labour Senedd members backing her.
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00:00Labour are in the midst of looking for a new leader much sooner than they could have expected,
00:05after Vaughan Gething announced he would be stepping down after just 118 days after he
00:09was first elected as First Minister.
00:12His tenure was chaotic and brief, but the party and the wider Senedd will be hoping
00:15for additional stability in the next leader, who could be appointed without a leadership
00:20campaign.
00:21Welsh Government veteran Eluned Morgan, who has served as Health Minister, Welsh Language
00:25Minister and Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, looks set to run unopposed for
00:30the leader of the party and therefore for First Minister.
00:34She has run previously, losing out to Mark Drakeford in 2018, and was a name many people
00:38thought would run this year against Jeremy Miles and Vaughan Gething, but took herself
00:42out of the running early doors.
00:44With the chaos that unfolded under Gething's leadership, the party will be hoping for a
00:48far more stable situation this time around, and she has decided to run on a joint unity
00:54bid with Huw Irenca-Davies as her deputy, in an attempt to stabilise the ship.