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18 April 2018updated 28 Jun 2021 4:39am

What’s next for Carwyn Jones?

The First Minister has been cleared by one inquiry, but now faces another.

By Stephen Bush

Carwyn Jones has been cleared of misleading the Welsh Assembly about what he knew, and when he knew it, about the allegations of bullying at the heart of his administration.

Following the suicide of Carl Sargeant, who was sacked from the Welsh Cabinet by Jones after allegations of sexual harassment were made against him, former minister Leighton Andrews claimed in a blog that there was a culture of bullying on the “fifth floor” – where senior ministers, including Jones himself, work – of which Sargeant was the victim.

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