Gareth Lewis: Eluned Morgan and Welsh Labour’s uncharted territory

Ms Morgan does appear to be starting with an enormous amount of goodwill from her colleagues.

There is a sense that she had already “taken one for the team” by staying on as health secretary under Mr Gething, despite heavy hints that she wanted to leave.

Labour MSs are also acutely aware that voters will punish them at the 2026 Senedd election if they do not start to focus on Welsh issues rather than Welsh Labour.

But some of the wounds within the party after still raw.

Jeremy Miles would have stood for leader again, having lost earlier this year, but decided he could not unite his colleagues.

There were fears that some supporters of Mr Gething would have made his life too difficult.

Some of those wounds will take time to heal fully.

As that process begins, the first tests of leadership loom for Ms Morgan.

She will have to appoint a cabinet and take into account the need to unite the party.

There is an expectation in some quarters that there will be minimal change next week – a new health secretary and counsel general, before a bigger reshuffle later in the year.

Would Mr Miles be asked to take on the health brief? Some within Labour expect that to happen.

I will leave it to your judgement as to whether taking on that job – with its intractable problems – is a curse or an honour.

But it is a route map to becoming first minister – Mark Drakeford, Vaughan Gething and Ms Morgan herself have all done it.

Longer term, we do not know if Mr Miles still harbours his own leadership ambitions and whether he has an eye on beyond 2026.