Look on the bright side. With 118 days as the Welsh first minister behind him, Vaughan Gething has comfortably done two Liz Trusses and more. The Tories have sent the benchmark for failure commendably low. There again, a shade under four months is still – how shall we put it kindly? – sub-optimal. Especially when your time in office includes having lost a no-confidence vote a while ago that you chose to ignore. This isn’t the kind of record that inspires confidence. Not least when it’s your own party who are out to get you.
On Tuesday morning, the Welsh Labour government hit crisis point when three ministers resigned and a senior adviser resigned over Gething’s continued leadership. The writing wasn’t so much on the wall as right in his face. Within an hour Gething succumbed to the inevitable and announced his resignation. At lunchtime he made a personal statement to the Senedd before first minister’s questions.
