Vaughan Gething quits as Welsh first minister but hits out at ‘pernicious’ claims of wrongdoing – as it happened

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Early evening summary

• Vaughan Gething has announced he is quitting as first minister of Wales following a brief and turbulent period in the job after his fate was sealed by the resignation of four members of his cabinet.

• Senior Labour figures have rejected comments by Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, that the UK could become the first “truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon” under the party.

• The first internal pressure on the Labour government to shift policy on Israel came on Tuesday when Labour Friends of Israel pressed the UK to restore funding to the UN’s Palestinian relief agency Unrwa.

• Alan Duncan, a former Conservative minister, has accused his party of corruption after officials admitted they launched an investigation into him over comments that were alleged to have been antisemitic, despite a lack of any formal complaint.

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Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has issued a statement about the resignation of Vaughan Gething claiming that Welsh government is failing. He said:

In the general election, Reform launched its contract with the people on the Gurnos Estate in Merthyr to demonstrate the reality of a Labour government.

Even Keir Starmer has described the Labour administration in Wales as a “blueprint” and “living proof of what Labour looks like in power.”

If 20mph speed limits, a failing NHS and falling education standards weren’t bad enough, we can now add political chaos and habitual mismanagement to that list.

Reform UK stands ready to give the people of Wales a new voice.

Reform UK got 17% of the vote in Wales at the general election.

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