Eluned Morgan today became Wales’s first female first minister (prif weinidog) after a vote in the Senedd. It is a landmark moment for Wales, and for the Labour Party – she is the first Labour female premier of a government in Great Britain. The party has yet to choose a woman as UK leader, unlike the Conservatives with Margaret Thatcher in 1975, followed by Theresa May and Liz Truss.

She becomes Wales’s head of government after the unhappy and controversial premiership of Vaughan Gething, who will now be remembered as a pub quiz question: ‘who was the first black head of government of a European country?’ I suspect Eluned Morgan will be in power in Cardiff Bay for a lot longer than his five months. In taking office, she told the Senedd, ‘Wales is a warm and welcoming nation and our political discourse needs to reflect that’.

Our family connection with Welsh first ministers

When I head the news that Eluned Morgan was to become first minister, I reflected that my family has had connections with four of the six people who have led the nation since devolution – home rule – in 1999. It is almost certain that will never happen again.