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From May to July 2024, First Minister Vaughan Gething faced a credibility crisis.

Government crisis and resignation
On 15 July cabinet minister Jeremy Miles, Gething's opponent in the leadership contest earlier that year, failed to declare his confidence in Gething as first minister when questioned if he had confidence in him in an interview with ITV Cymru Wales. On the same day, members of the Senedd reiterated their calls for him to resign. On the morning of 16 July, the situation around Gething escalated into a government crisis, with Miles and three other ministers in Gething's government announcing their resignations and demanding that he step down. Miles and three other ministers, the counsel general Mick Antoniw, the housing secretary Julie James and the culture and social justice secretary Lesley Griffiths, posted their letters of resignation on the social media platform X, in which they asked Gething to resign. The ministers' resignations were coordinated, with each post made within minutes of one another, to force Gething's resignation.

In response to these resignations, Gething announced in a statement later on 16 July that he would "begin the process of stepping down as leader of the Welsh Labour Party and, as a result, first minister". He said he "had hoped that over the summer a period of reflection, rebuilding and renewal could take place under my leadership. I recognise now that this is not possible". He thanked his supporters and criticised his critics, stating that accusations of wrongdoing on his part were "pernicious, politically motivated and patently untrue". He later delivered the statement in person to the Senedd on the evening of 16 July, at that day's session of First Minister's Questions, and confirmed that he would remain in post for the time being until the election of a successor in a new Welsh Labour leadership election drawn up by the Welsh Labour Executive.