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Vaughan Gething, at Cardiff University, after being elected as the next Welsh Labour leader and First Minister of Wales, March 16, 2024

VAUGHAN GETHING faced a fresh grilling at First Minister’s Questions today over his links to an environmental company at the heart of a donation to his Welsh Labour leadership campaign.

Welsh Conservative leader Andrew Davies raised the issue of a landfill site at Withyhedge where residents find the odour unbearable and public health warnings have been issued.

Mr Davies said that the First Minister needed to register a conflict of interest, as this landfill site is run by a subsidiary of Dauson Environmental Group, whose owner David Neal gave the donation of £200,000 to Mr Gething’s leadership campaign.

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