In May, Nation Cymru published an article alleging that Vaughan Gething, the health secretary at the time, had promised in a ministerial chat in 2020 to erase all of their conversations in order to prevent them from being “captured in a FOI [Freedom of Information request]”.
The current first minister claimed, during the COVID probe, that the text had nothing to do with pandemic decision-making and was instead “about the way in which we described what we are doing” and referred to “a Labour group meeting in August 2020”.
Hannah Blythyn, a former social partnership minister, was removed from her position a few days later on suspicion of being the source of the leak.
But now, a new item with the heading “Hannah Blythyn was not our source” has been released on the website that first published the article.
It comes after Ms. Blythyn gave a private testimony before the Senate on Tuesday, claiming she had voiced “formal concerns” and that she had not been given any proof to support her dismissal.
