A man who has the honour of being his country’s first leader from an ethnic background but who comes to office with the baggage of a questionable performance running the health service during the pandemic. It could be Humza Yousaf, but equally it could now be Vaughan Gething, who was elected as Labour leader in Wales this morning and will become First Minister when Mark Drakeford steps down this week.
It is fair to say that his elevation will not be welcomed by everyone, not least by the relatives of those who died in Welsh care homes after patients were discharged there in March 2020 without being tested for Covid. The Welsh government, on Gething’s watch, was even slower to introduce the tests than Matt Hancock was – two weeks later, indeed. If the UK government has been criticised as being slow to get on top of Covid in the early stages, the same is even more true of Gething’s department.
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