Several Welsh Government ministers resign over Vaughan Gething leadership

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Several Welsh Government ministers resign over Vaughan Gething leadership
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The First Minister has been embroiled in controversy since taking the post

Jeremy Miles, Mick Antoniw, Julie James and Lesley Griffiths have all handed their letters of resignation in toAll four have cited their decisions around a lack of confidence in Mr Gething to continue as First Minister“Vaughan Gething’s time as First Minister is rightly coming to an end."

This led to the collapse of a co-operation agreement between his party and Plaid Cymru and he subsequently lost a non-binding vote of no confidence in the Senedd “I can’t see any way forward for us which allows us to get on with job we are elected to do, without you standing down.”Mick Antoniw told Vaughan Gething “I do not believe you can continue as First Minister” as he quit as the Welsh Government’s counsel general.

“You have lost a vote of confidence in the Senedd. That is something I regard as being of major constitutional importance. She wrote in a resignation letter to Vaughan Gething: “Yesterday we discussed my concerns about the circumstances surrounding certain campaign donations you received; the outcome of the vote of no confidence; and the sacking of a ministerial colleague for leaking when no formal leak inquiry had taken place.

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