A group of politicians and their aides, including the leader and the chief whip of the Welsh Conservatives and the former Labour minister Alun Davies, are alleged to have broken lockdown regulations with an informal gathering at the Senedd building. The Welsh Labour party has suspended Davies while the investigation is ongoing. He and three Conservatives involved apologised but denied breaking the rules.
The affair is obviously particularly embarrassing for the Welsh Conservatives, whose leader and chief whip are at the centre of the allegations. But it comes at a time when the approaching Welsh parliamentary elections look likely to be tight, with the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru in a close battle for second place. More importantly, an election result in which Welsh Labour is the largest party but other parties can form a government without them continues to be a plausible outcome.
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