Hywel Rhodri Morgan was a Welsh Labour politician who was the First Minister of Wales and the Leader of Welsh Labour from 2000 to 2009. He was also the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011 and the Member of Parliament for Cardiff West from 1987 to 2001. He remains the longest-serving First Minister of Wales,having served in the position for 9 years and 304 days. He was Chancellor of Swansea University from 2011 until his death in 2017.
Betty Helena Williams is a Welsh Labour politician,who was the Member of Parliament for Conwy from 1997 to 2010.
Jane Elizabeth Hutt is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Welsh Government Chief Whip since 2023 and Minister for Social Justice since 2021. She has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for the Vale of Glamorgan since 1999.
Carwyn Howell Jones is a Welsh politician who served as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour from 2009 to 2018. He served as Counsel General for Wales from 2007 to 2009. Jones served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Bridgend from 1999 to 2021.
Andrew David Davies is a Welsh Labour politician,who represented the constituency of Swansea West in the National Assembly for Wales. Davies was born in Hereford to Welsh parents;his mother is from Llandeilo and his father from Holywell,Flintshire. Davies attended Hereford Cathedral School and Swansea University,where he trained as a teacher.
Leighton Andrews is an academic and former Welsh Labour politician. He was the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda from 2003 until 2016. He was Minister for Children,Education &Lifelong Learning from 2009 to 2011,then Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Government until his resignation on 25 June 2013 after an alleged conflict between his own departmental policy and his active campaigning to save a school in his constituency. In September 2014 he returned to the government as Minister for Public Services.
Carl Sargeant was a Welsh politician who was the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children in the Welsh Government. He represented the constituency of Alyn and Deeside in the National Assembly for Wales from 2003.
John Griffiths is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who previously served as Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development from 2011 to 2013. Griffiths has represented the constituency of Newport East in the Senedd since 1999.
Margaret Delyth Evans is a former Welsh Labour politician who was a Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for the Mid and West Wales region between 2000 and 2003.
Gowerton School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Gowerton,Swansea,Wales.
The Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales is a children's hospital in Cardiff,Wales. It is situated on the site of the University Hospital of Wales in the Heath area of the city and is managed by the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
The Minister for the Economy is a member of the Cabinet in the Welsh Government. The current officeholder is Vaughan Gething MS.
Mark Drakeford is a Welsh politician serving as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour since 2018. He previously served in the Welsh Government as Cabinet Secretary for Finance from 2016 to 2018 and Minister for Health and Social Services from 2013 to 2016. Drakeford was first elected as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Cardiff West in 2011 and is considered to be on the Soft left of Labour.
The All Wales Ethnic Minority Association (AWEMA) was a Swansea,Wales-based charity,which was focused on national-level distribution of funds to various ethnic minority projects across Wales. It lost its charity status and funding in 2012 following repeated claims of mismanagement,investigated by the Welsh assembly.
Rebecca Mary Evans is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician,serving as Minister for Finance since 2018 and Minister for Local Government since 2021. She has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Gower since 2016,and a Member for Mid and West Wales from 2011 to 2016.
The fourth Morgan government was a Labour–Plaid Cymru coalition government led by First Minister for Wales,Rhodri Morgan.
The 2009 Welsh Labour leadership election was held following the resignation of Rhodri Morgan,who stepped down after nine years as First Minister of Wales. Morgan had made clear his intent to resign in 2009 as far back as 2005. As Morgan had been elected unopposed in 2000,this was the first contested election for the Welsh Labour leadership for more than a decade.
The 2018 Welsh Labour Party leadership election took place between 9 November and 6 December 2018 to elect a successor to Carwyn Jones as leader of the Welsh Labour Party.
The Minister for North Wales is a member of the cabinet in the Welsh Government. The current officeholder is Lesley Griffiths since May 2021.
