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Black activists slam attacks on Vaughan Gething as racially influenced
Vaughan Gething, at Cardiff University, after being elected as the next Welsh Labour leader and First Minister of Wales, the first black leader of any European country, March 16, 2024

BLACK Welsh Labour activists have slammed recent attacks on First Minister Vaughan Gething by the Welsh media as “racially influenced.”

Welsh Labour’s black, Asian and minority ethnic committee statement was published on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday by chairman Mahaboob Basha and vice chairwoman Ruby Sivagnanam.

The statement said: “For so many BAME people in Wales the last few weeks will have been disturbing, unsettling and yet very familiar. 

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