It’s no small thing to ask a Minister to step down or to be dismissed. But, having seriously considered the issue, that’s what I and Plaid Cymru did.
I’m not talking about the stunt pulled by the Welsh Conservatives the other week in the Senedd – to use their debate time to call for a vote of no confidence in the Health Minister Eluned Morgan. That was almost a full month after Plaid Cymru first became convinced that the time had come for a new start in leadership on health.
The catalogue of failings in the NHS under this government’s watch were already extensive: the worst waiting times ever, the stubborn failure to change tack when it’s been obvious that efforts to cut those waiting times weren’t going to succeed, the crisis of ambulance waits, staff shortages, attitudes towards those taking industrial action, the mess that is the dental service. I could go on.
