A Welsh Government minister has apologised and said he was "embarrassed" after he accidently voted against the Government three times. Deputy minister for climate change and Llanelli Senedd Member Lee Waters said it was "embarrassing and frustrating" that he "made mistakes" when voting and blamed a "lapse in concentration".
The first error came during a vote on the Agricultural Bill on May 16. The Tories had introduced an amendment. Labour, who have a working majority, voted against it. However Mr Waters accidently voted in favour of it meaning that it passed.
This led to the need for a special "report stage" to undo the effect of the amendment on the bill. There was a vote the following week (May 24) to allow a report stage and Mr Waters was the only MS to vote against it, meaning he failed to vote to undo his earlier error.
