Vaughan Gething: Who is the first minister of Wales?

Mr Gething became the first minister of Wales on 20 March 2024, following a Welsh Labour leadership race which saw him go head-to-head with Jeremy Miles MS.

But the campaign itself was marred by controversy over his acceptance of a £200,000 donation from a firm owned by a man previously convicted of environmental offences.

Mr Gething insisted that he followed the rules around campaign donations.

In May, Mr Gething sacked one of his cabinet ministers – Hannah Blythyn – after messages from the Covid pandemic were leaked to the website Nation.Cymru.

The leaked messages showed Mr Gething claiming he would delete all correspondence from an iMessage group of Welsh ministers.

But Ms Blythyn denied that she was the source of the leak and Nation.Cymru later said she was not the source of the information.

Mr Gething then said that the leaks “could only have been of one member’s phone”.

He provided no evidence publicly to support his claim, but said he would “rather not go through this detail in public”.

Later in May, Plaid Cymru ended it’s co-operation deal with Labour in the Senedd, after Plaid’s leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said he was “deeply concerned” about the donations Mr Gething had accepted during his leadership campaign.

In June, Mr Gething lost a vote of no confidence in the Senedd – when two Labour members were off sick – but insisted he would not resign.

On Tuesday, four members of the Welsh government’s cabinet resigned at the same time, calling for Mr Gething to go.