Gething Faces Backlash Over £200K Donation From Convicted Polluter
• Welsh Labour politicians held a meeting to discuss concerns about newly elected leader Vaughan Gething's £200,000 donation from a firm owned by a convicted environmental criminal.
• Some Labour members said Gething should return the donation and threatened to abstain from voting him in as First Minister if he does not.
• Gething defended taking the donation and refused calls to pay it back, but promised a review of campaign donations for future Welsh Labour leadership contests.
• Gething won the Welsh Labour leadership contest by a thinner margin among party members compared to affiliates like trade unions.
• Climate Change Minister Julie James and former First Minister Carwyn Jones criticized Gething's decision to accept the controversial donation.