The woes of the SNP detailed in your Leader (3 May) have echoes in the other long-serving UK national governments. Complacency, matched with an alarming lack of moral compass, is not just a Tory disease, it seems. The First Minister for Wales, Vaughan Gething, by accepting a £200,000 donation from a highly dubious source, has done Welsh Labour severe reputational damage.
A limited talent pool, where the same faces regularly swap ministerial briefs, encourages a culture of lifelong incumbency and entitlement. It does not help refute the doorstep claim that “they’re all the same” at a time when Keir Starmer needs as many new Labour MPs at the general election as he can muster. Gething needs to “consider his position” for the greater good of his party and its chances of forming the next UK government.
Felicity McGowan, Cardigan, Wales
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