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Fay Jones

OPINION - Vaughan Gething's scandals would have him on the rack if he was a Tory like me

Imagine there’s been a leadership election…(not hard, I know).

The winner has been declared and it’s a close run thing after securing 52 per cent of the vote. During the contest, a few rum facts surfaced. For example, it emerged that our winner had taken £200k from a company owned by a man previously convicted of illegally dumping waste. Or there’s the fact that he had lobbied regulators to look more favourably on the firm. Or that a government department gave the same company a £400k loan from the state-run Development Bank when Gething was a minister.

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