Eluned Morgan travels to Cork on Thursday for a bilateral with the Irish Government, but first she must learn a cúpla focail for her trip to the Áras
‘I met Nigel Farage in the bar’: the vicar’s daughter who ‘liked to party’ and is now first minister of Wales
Morgan was ready for barbs that came her way from Tories and also Plaid Cymru, the nationalists who have occasionally co-operated with the government in the past. She held a folder labelled “Hot Issues” with pre-cooked ripostes. But, mostly, Morgan fended them all off with barbs of her own. She will have to keep it up; she is the third Labour first minister of Wales so far this year and must now salve the wounds of her fractious party after a painful period of infighting. Wales also faces myriad challenges, especially with its ailing health service and tight UK finances.
This year’s forum is the fourth of a five-year programme, focused on co-operation in areas such as energy, education, culture and trade. Morgan said negotiations on the next programme would begin: “Let’s make it really meaningful. One of the things we are really interested in is building out the Celtic Sea opportunities – offshore wind. We need a big picture vision.”
She said the Brexit Party, a Reform forerunner, tried to break into Wales before but “fell apart almost the moment they walked in; no coherence, no policy agenda”. Farage launched his party’s UK election campaign this year in Merthyr Tydfil, a statement of intent. Did she know him from Brussels, where he was an MEP for 20 years?
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