Summary

  • First Minister Vaughan Gething lost a no-confidence vote in the Senedd after it passed 29 votes to 27

  • Two of his Welsh Labour colleagues - both of whom have had fallouts with him - were said to be too ill to take part

  • Tories, Plaid Cymru, and Lib Dems all called for the Labour leader to resign - but he vowed to "carry on doing my duty"

  • Mr Gething was in tears in the Senedd as Labour colleagues spoke in his support

  • A vote on his leadership came just 77 days after he was elected to his role leading the Welsh government

  • The Welsh Conservatives forced the vote after weeks of rows about donations to his leadership campaign

  • Mr Gething accepted £200,000 for his campaign from a company run by a man who was convicted twice for environmental offences

Live Reporting

Edited by Adam Hale, Maria Cassidy and David Deans

  1. What is a no-confidence vote?

    When a confidence motion is tabled in the Senedd (the Welsh Parliament), Members of the Senedd (MSs) vote on whether they have confidence in the ability of a leader to effectively do their job.

    With the Senedd evenly split between the opposition and Vaughan Gething's Welsh Labour party, he needed the whole of his Labour group to back him to win the vote.

    For the motion to succeed later this afternoon, it requires a Labour MS to vote for the motion, choose not to vote, or be unable to vote - a camp that two Labour MSs appear to currently be in.

  2. Good afternoon

    Hello and welcome to what could potentially be a very dramatic day in the Welsh Parliament.

    Today, First Minister Vaughan Gething will face a vote of no-confidence in his leadership of the Welsh government - which comes after months of criticism over donations he accepted to his leadership campaign.

    Because Mr Gething's Welsh Labour party holds exactly half of the parliament's 60 seats, he was relying on every colleague there to support him to avoid losing the vote.

    But in the first bit of drama this morning, Welsh Labour's chair told the BBC that two of those Labour colleagues - believed to be members who have had fallouts with Mr Gething - are now "currently unwell" and are not expected to take part.

    This means, as long as every other party votes against Mr Gething, he is currently set to lose the no-confidence motion.

    Stick with us as we build to this afternoon's crunch vote in the Senedd, with our reporters and editors bringing you all the latest updates, plus expert analysis and colour.