Vaughan Gething: Welsh voters react to FM no-confidence vote

There are signs Mr Gething’s donations row could be impacting support for Labour at Senedd level, but not at Westminster, claims one Welsh political expert.

“We’re seeing one of the biggest gaps we’ve ever seen between Westminster vote intention for Labour and Senedd vote intention for Labour,” said Dr Jac Larner, a lecturer in political science at Cardiff University.

“At the moment in the polls around 45% – just less than half – of all voters say they’ll vote Labour in a Westminster election but that goes down to about 30% in Senedd elections.

“You don’t want to read too much into that of course, but it does suggest that Labour at Welsh elections, at devolved elections, are at the moment considerably less popular than they are when it comes to Westminster elections.”

He added: “Keir Starmer is quite a bit more popular in Wales than Vaughan Gething and this is actually a reversal from what we saw under Mark Drakeford, who was consistently more popular than the UK leader.”

Welsh Labour said the motion was a Tory political stunt “aided and abetted” by Plaid Cymru.

A spokesman said: “Vaughan is focused on delivering for our NHS and the economy and helping to return the UK Labour government Wales is crying out for.”