What do opposition parties want from new FM?

Eluned Morgan has been Welsh first minister for five weeks

The summer recess, or break, is over for Senedd members next week.

To say the summer was busy would be an understatement.

Vaughan Gething resigned as first minister. Eluned Morgan took over. And there was a UK general election.

The new FM has been on a "listening exercise" with voters, but opposition parties have accused her of a PR stunt and inaction.

She reshuffled her cabinet this week with Jeremy Miles back to take over at health, and Mark Drakeford staying in government with a move to finance.

She will formally announce her priorities on Tuesday, with NHS waiting lists top of the pile.

But for every priority, something else will have to be de-prioritised, as she herself admitted earlier in the summer. We wait to see what falls down the agenda.

Labour has half the Senedd seats, so the FM will also need to negotiate a budget deal with one of the opposition parties after Plaid Cymru withdrew its support in May.

BBC Wales has spoken to all three opposition party leaders to find out what they’d like to hear from Eluned Morgan.

Jane Dodds, Liberal Democrat

Mid and West Wales Senedd member Jane Dodds is Welsh Lib Dem leader

It might seem odd to kick this off with a party that has just one Senedd member, but Jane Dodds could find herself in a powerful position when budget negotiations start.

The FM needs one extra vote for her plans to pass, so Dodds could offer a path of least resistance. It also means she could drive a hard bargain.

She ruled out taking a seat in the cabinet of former FM Vaughan Gething, had he asked during any negotiations.

Dodds did not rule out a budget deal with the current FM.

You’ll notice a theme: all three opposition leaders have the NHS at the top of their list.

Her starting point is more money coming from the UK government and to see Welsh Labour using its “significant influence” with Keir Starmer.

She said: “I won't be entering any discussions until I know that that's happened.”

During the general election Labour promised a better outcome for Wales with two Labour governments working together.

Dodds appears to rule out any formal arrangement with Ms Morgan.

She said: "I'm not going to be working with Welsh Labour at all.

"I'm really clear that, as politicians, we all want to see things change here in Wales.

"And, as I've said, the first thing I want to see is that the budget will be different and will having increased for us to deliver those priorities in the health service, care services and for our economy."

Andrew RT Davies, Conservative

South Wales Central MS Andrew RT Davies leads the Conservatives in the Senedd

“They have to get on top of the NHS especially the chronic waiting times,” said Davies.

“Otherwise we are going to see a catastrophic decline in standards in the Welsh NHS…

“If they don’t get waiting times sorted they won’t stop in-year budgetary pressures and education, the economy and everything else will suffer,” he said.

The Senedd Conservative leader said he would also like to see more money spent on primary level health, such as GPs services, to try to stop so many people needing to attend hospitals.

He repeated his calls for the expansion of the Senedd and Wales’ 20mph law to be reversed, which he admitted had a “small price tag” but would make a difference.

Davies said that the prospect of any budget talks with Labour were "not happening."

Earlier in the summer he suggested that he might be open to them, only for the Deputy First Minister, Huw Irranca Davies, to shoot the idea down immediately.

Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth represents the Ynys Môn seat

The party that earlier this year was in a deal with Labour has branded the first minister’s listening exercise as a PR stunt.

“She’s decided I’m just going to go out and listen to people, which is a good thing, but surely she should be saying: 'these are my ideas, what do you think?'" Rhun ap Iorwerth said.

He thinks the exercise has been a cover for what he sees as a relative lack of action and to "calm the waters within the Welsh Labour Party", which tore itself apart over Vaughan Gething.

"I want to see from the FM a real urgency in getting to grips with the problems we have in health, in education and the economy," he added.

On budget negotiations, he said there had been no contact between his party and Labour, but that on top of those three priorities he would be looking for "measures that can help tackle deep inequalities we have in Welsh society".

Eluned Morgan appears on Politics Wales, on BBC One Wales, at 10:00 BST on Sunday.

She makes a statement to the Senedd about her priorities on Tuesday.