FTI Consulting UK Public Affairs Snapshot: A New Era for Wales

Get to know Wales' new first minister Rhun ap Iorwerth

First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth answers quickfire questions at the Urdd Eisteddfod

FTI Consulting UK Public Affairs Snapshot: A New Era for Wales

“Something has stirred in the Soul of Wales”, declaimed Wales’s first non-Labour First Minister, Rhun ap Iorwerth, as he stood to give his first speech in the Senedd as head of a new soft-left, nationalist Welsh Government. On 7th May, breaking 27 years of continuous Welsh Labour governance in Cardiff Bay, and over a century of single-party dominance in Wales, Plaid Cymru became the largest party at the Senedd elections. This result means that e…