Next Welsh first minister could lead Labour's post-election resistance | Politics | The Guardian

Next Welsh first minister could lead Labour's post-election resistance | Politics | The Guardian: "Hart is by far the leadership race's most unspun voice, who last week caused a brouhaha connected to the fact that she doesn't speak her country's native tongue. As some see it, Morgan's bilingualism built Welsh-speaking into the first minister's role. Jones ticks that box, and Lewis is learning the language, but Hart told an interviewer that its importance is perhaps overrated.
To massed gasps, her choicest quote ran as follows: 'I'd also find it very useful if I could speak some other languages like Bengali or Chinese when I'm in the Swansea community.'
She tells me that rating any candidate by their linguistic facility is akin to 'judging them on having red hair, or how loud they shout at the rugby'. And such bluntness is carried over into just about everything she talks about. Keen to maintain the fabled 'clear red water' that separates Cardiff and Westminster, all three candidates sit well to the left of, say, Lord Mandelson – but Hart is as old Labour as could be imagined."


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Why doesn't she learn Bengali then?