Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labor Party leadership contest on Saturday, setting him up to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government. Gething, the.
Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labor Party leadership contest on Saturday, setting him up to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government. Gething, the son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, will be the first Black leader of a government in the UK—and, according to him, of any European country. “Today, we turn a page in the book of our nation’s history. A history we write together,” Gething said in his victory speech, the AP reports. “Not just because I have the honor of becoming the first Black leader in any European country—but because the generational dial has jumped too.
