Welsh Conservative Leader Andrew RT Davies has written to Vaughan Gething over a controversial £200,000 donation to Gething’s leadership campaign.
Yesterday, Gething’s leadership rival Jeremy Miles told the BBC he ‘would not have accepted’ the donation from a company owned by a man prosecuted for waste offences.
Davies says in his letter (attached) that the donation likely breaches part of the Ministerial Code and adds: “Given the seriousness of this apparent breach [of the Ministerial code], an independent investigation must be carried out.”
As it stands, the Ministerial Code says that the First Minister is the “ultimate judge of the standards of behaviour expected of a minister and the appropriate consequences of a breach of those standards”.
Andrew RT Davies MS, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, said:
“The level of disquiet about Gething’s donation is unprecedented in a Labour Senedd Group.
“It’s natural that Labour MSs and people in Wales more widely still feel there are questions to be answered on this issue when the First Minister is able to act as judge, jury and executioner when it comes to the Ministerial Code.
“It’s time to bring in an independent adviser to look into this donation so those questions can be answered.”
