Jeremy Miles ‘would not have accepted’ donation given to Vaughan Gething

Welsh government minister Jeremy Miles says he “would not have accepted” a £200,000 donation given to Vaughan Gething during their rival bids to become first minister.

Mr Gething’s leadership campaign was overshadowed by the donation from a company owned by a man prosecuted for waste offences.

He succeeded Mark Drakeford to become first minister in March, and Mr Miles has since become cabinet secretary for economy, energy and Welsh language.

Last month, Mr Gething was asked by BBC Politics Wales if he would return the money from Dauson Environmental Group Ltd, to which he said: “No. We’ve done nothing outside of the rules.”

But Mr Miles told Sunday’s programme he would not have accepted the money had he been offered it.

“These are for individual candidates to answer about individual donations, which they accept. I would not have accepted it, but those questions are not for me,” he said.