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(UK) Plot to replace Sunak with Penny Mordaunt? + 1st Black leader in Europe - C C - Mar 17, 2024
Tory MPs plotting to replace Sunak with Penny Mordaunt before general election
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tory-mps-plotting-to-replace-sunak-with-penny-mordaunt-before-general-election-370501/
INTRO: Senior Tories have sought to downplay reports that some Conservative MPs are plotting to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister with Penny Mordaunt before the general election.
A source close to House of Commons Leader Ms Mordaunt rejected claims of an organised attempt to elevate her to the Tory leadership as “nonsense”.
Conservative former minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who has publicly backed installing a new leader before the nation goes to the polls, denied that right-wing Tory MPs were coalescing around Ms Mordaunt.
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a former business secretary, denounced the idea as “madness”... (MORE - details)
Wales elects Vaughan Gething, first Black national leader in Europe
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wales-elects-vaughan-gething-first-black-national-leader-in-europe/
EXCERPTS: Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales' semi-autonomous government.
Gething, who is currently Welsh economy minister, narrowly beat Education Minister Jeremy Miles in a race to replace First Minister Mark Drakeford. Drakeford announced late last year he would step down once a replacement was chosen.
[...] Gething, son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, will be the first Black leader of a government in the U.K. - and, by some definitions, of any European country.
"Today, we turn a page in the book of our nation's history. A history we write together," Gething said in his victory speech. "Not just because I have the honor of becoming the first Black leader in any European country – but because the generational dial has jumped too."
Once Gething is in post, three of the U.K.'s four governments will have non-white leaders. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has Indian heritage, while Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf's was born to a Pakistani family in Britain.
[...] Wales, which has a population of about 3 million, is one of four countries that make up the United Kingdom, along with England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The British government in London is responsible for defense, foreign affairs and other U.K.-wide issues, while administrations in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast control areas such as education and health... (MORE - missing details)