Serious questions about Labour and Vaughan Gething unless dodgy donation returned

Plaid Cymru has responded to the news that £31,000 left over from Vaughan Gething’s campaign to be First Minister will be given to the Labour Party. The donations that the received as part of his campaign included £200,000 from a firm owned by a man previously convicted of environmental offences.

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member, Heledd Fychan MS said:

“This sorry episode has marred the First Minister’s first few months in office at a time when Wales’s schools and hospitals are facing huge challenges and need a Leader focused on the job.

 “Unless Vaughan Gething does the right thing today and commits to returning the donation in full, serious and justified questions about his judgement won’t go away any time soon.

 “The UK Labour Party must also show some moral leadership and return the money. Failure to do so will mean that every General Election candidate in Wales will be funded by questionable money and it also means that Keir Starmer’s big announcement today about Labour being the party of change will be nothing but hollow words.”