ITV News' Wales Reporter Rhys Williams explains what's behind the vote against Wales' first minister - and what may happen next.
The 50-year-old has been dogged by questions over a £200,000 donation to his leadership campaign by a company whose owner, David Neal, was previously convicted of dumping waste on the Gwent Levels.
But then the leader of the Labour group in the Senedd Vikki Howells told BBC Radio Wales the vote was in fact likely to be lost, because two of its MSs are ill. She wouldn’t say who was too unwell to vote, but I understand them to be the former climate change minister Lee Waters , and former junior minister Hannah Blythyn, who was recently sacked for allegedly leaking text messages to the media.There is growing concern within the party too that the issue is beginning to cut through with voters. In an ITV Wales poll published this week, 57% of respondents said they believe Vaughan Gething is performing badly, with 15% saying that he is performing well.
The first minister has insisted he hasn’t broken any rules and he’s been backed by the UK party leaderFor Mr Starmer this is an incredibly unhelpful distraction, and pressure could be put on Wales’s first minister to step aside. Have you heard our new podcast Talking Politics? Every week Tom, Robert and Anushka dig into the biggest issues dominating the political agenda…
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