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: "And here is the remarkable thing: with Labour more than likely to lose next year's general election to the Tories, and Alex Salmond entrenched in Edinburgh until 2011 at the earliest, whoever wins will probably become his party's biggest executive hitter – a kind of left-leaning Boris Johnson, with the added bonus of being in charge of a whole country, and possibly becoming the de facto leader of any anti-Conservative resistance.
When I mention that prospect, Jones – raised 40-odd miles away in the Bridgend constituency that he represents – is at pains to seem somewhere between unimpressed and horrified. 'Under no circumstances would I want that to happen,' he says. 'It would be bad for the party. Not because it would be me, but because we wouldn't have a Labour government in Westminster.'"


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