Europes first black leader, after winning the welsh labour leadership election. The outgoing First Minister, mark drakeford, will step down from the post next week. Mr gething was born in zambia and is a former solicitor. In his acceptance speech, he highlighted the historic nature of his win. Today, we turn a page in the book of our nations history. A history that we write together. Notjust because i have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any european country, but because a generational dial has jumped too. Like ken and jane, devolution is not something that i have had to get used to, or to adapt to, or to apologise for. Devolution, welsh solutions to welsh problems and opportunities, is in my blood. It is what i have always known through my adult political life and that is the same for a growing number of our citizens and i want us to use this moment as a Starting Point for a more confident march into the future. A march into the future on behalf of a generation that,
Today, we turn a page in the book of our nations history. A history that we write together. Notjust because i have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any european country, but because a generational dial has jumped, too. Devolution is not something i have had to get used to, or to apologise for. Devolution, welsh solutions to welsh problems and opportunities, is in my blood. It is what i have always known through my adult political life. Thats the same for a growing number of our citizens. I want us to use this moment as a Starting Point for a more confident march into the future. A march into the future on behalf of a generation that too often is being asked to Pick Up The Pieces and the bill for those who came before them. In wales it often takes the worst times to get the best out of us. In adversity, you cant match us. We will be there. Fighting tooth and nail for the will be there. Fighting tooth and nailfor the impossible will be there. Fighting tooth and nail for t
Hywel griffith was watching the announcement. A two horse race where both men stuck rigidly to the centre but in the end of the new leader of the welsh labour was elected byjust under two 52 of the vote. Vaughan gething, congratulations. After being responsible for health and the economy, Vaughan Gething will now take a big step up to become the first black First Minister of wales. Today we turn a new page in our welsh history. A history that we write together. Notjust because im the first black leader of any european country, but a generational dial hasjumped, too. I want us to use this moment as a Starting Point for a more confident march into the future. A march into the future in behalf of a generation that too often is being asked to Pick Up The Pieces and the bill for those who came before them. In pieces and the bill for those who came before them. Pieces and the bill for those who came before them. In his campaign video, he tackled came before them. In his campaign video, he ta
Get together with some smart people could break down the big story today, were asking if the Migrant Crisis continues to grow ten President Bidens trip to the border help him flip the script on the issue. Many voters say, is their biggest concern that will Super Tuesday coming up and donald trump expected to win big again, can he afford to ignore the chunk of voters nikki haley is taking . And shes back. Monica lewinsky is new look and mission which has a lot of heads turning. The panel is here and ready to go. So sit back, relax, and lets talk about up first the number one issue for voters, not immigration. A problem that took center stage this week when both President Biden and donald trump headed to the southern border hoping to convince voters the Migrant Crisis is the other guys fault. Air force one, and trump force one, setting up a texas showdown. As the two president s faced off over who can fix the border, this is a joe biden invasion. This is a biden invasion over the past th
this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight, the flimflam game, that is the focus of tonight s angle. all right the talking point for globalist is conservative skeptical about the mcconnell s last chuck schumer don t want to solve the crisis but bowing down to donald trump who opposes it. it is not surprising, i guess, but i mean it is deeply cynical. people are dying and a lot of people s lives are hanging in the balance. i think it is a fundamental problem with trump. it is about to burn it down caucus pier they don t want to legislate because legislation is solving problems, right? they don t want the government to work. laura: similar flimsy thinking coming from conservative stalwart mitt romney and other trump loathing pro-amnesty republicans like thom tillis. it is immoral for me to think you want to go the other way because you think this is the linchpin for trump to win. i don t want to be a part of this history that fails democracy. laura: sena