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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot

Public services priority for Welsh people, not devolution, says new first minister

Eluned Morgan raises her hand in the Senedd as she addresses the Welsh government on her first day as first minister
Eluned Morgan, the third leader of Welsh Labour this year, said her party had to ‘reinvent ourselves in office’. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Welsh Government/PA

Public services are the Welsh people’s priority rather than more devolution, the new first minister has said, promising to “reinvent” Labour after taking office in the Senedd.

Eluned Morgan, the former health minister, was sworn in on Tuesday, becoming the third leader of Welsh Labour this year. She has taken over after her predecessor, Vaughan Gething, lasted less than 140 days in office before being forced to resign over a row about donations and a sacked minister he wrongly accused of leaking messages.

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