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Eluned Morgan

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  1. “So, my dad just, I think, started off through being the local vicar. He was always motivated first by his Christianity, but just praying for people who live in that community wasn't practical enough, so he got into politics. The Labour Party, so he became, and it was a solid Labour area, you know, and it was a marginal seat, so you can imagine election times. Everybody piled in. But our house, I mean, you think back, it was, you know, we had three first ministers who used to turn up all the time. So Alan Michael was a youth worker in the area. Mark Drakeford was a youth worker in the area. And Roger Morgan became the MP. And then we had George Thomas was the MP before.”

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  2. “A lad who walked from the other side of Carda, if he was kicked out of his house by his mother at about age 11, he walked the other side from the city, turned up if his father's house who said, okay, you can come in with his new wife, but you've got to leave before we get up in the morning and you've got to be in bed after we've gone to bed. So he literally, you know, my dad found him in the back of the church and he came to our house every day. You know, he came for breakfast. You know, there were lots of kids like that. And that was just part of what we grew up with. Actually, interestingly, we've recently interviewed Nancy Pelosi and Rosa Dolore, these kind of big figures of the Democratic Party in the United States, and they also grew up in houses with parents who had, in their case, they were sort of local councillors, mayors, had these amazing open houses, in their case, they're older than you, running through the 50s and 60s. But I think part of their formation as politics...”

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  3. “To turn up to the disco, we all had a muck in, so we had bingo every Tuesday, and you had to go into the bingo and we all had to set it all up and you'd had to clear up at the end of the night. And you couldn't see your hand in front of your face because all the smoke that everybody was smoking. And it was just an amazing upbringing. But crucially, it was a really poor area. There were a lot of people who were in trouble. And we had an open house. I mean, literally all times the day and night. We had people from, you know, I remember there's a...”

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  4. “That is no way I'm going there on this program. But what I did have was an upbringing, is a council housing estate. It was the largest council housing estate in Europe. There had been a couple of riots there. That's what has drawn attention to it. And my dad, you know, our Vicarage was right in the middle of the estate. And most of the things in the community were centered around the church. It was the church that held a lot of it together. So he ran a disco, one of the first discos in South Wales. 800 people coming in every week way before health and safety laws came in. He ran it, yeah. And is that not a bit embarrassing, like the trendy vicar in the disco? It was a bit. Can you imagine him rocking up in his collar? But he was a real working class bloke and used to love bouncing. He'd get in there and grab people by their hair if they were messing about. You know, he was, he wouldn't take any messing and he was really respected. Shake and Stevenson, people.”

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  5. “They do, and I think it's kind of which path you tread, really. And I've got to say, I was a little bit more naughty than Theresa May, who kind of ran through a field of wheat.”

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  6. “Remember reading a book Jeremy Paxborough's book a few years ago and said, What kind of people go into politics? And he identified Vicar's kids as a group. So, you know, we're obviously brought up with that sense of service. That's the example we're given in our community.”

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  7. “That's the big European approach, isn't it? I've always believed in that. And what's important is you don't just do subsidiarity from the UK to Wales. You should be doing it within Wales as well, making sure that you can get power decision making as close as you can to people. So in terms of where we're at now, I think the balance, I certainly wouldn't be given any powers back, but I think there are little areas around the edges things like youth justice, for example, where we have lots of the powers to make the difference because the infrastructure for apprenticeships and education and all of those things that are so important to getting people back on the right track, we've got the power over those and there's a disconnect with the Home Office and things. So that is a problem that I think there's a few areas like that that need to be ironed out.”

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  8. “And four international British listeners tell us a little bit about the role of First Mus from the powers that Wales has independent of the United Kingdom. So we've had a devolved government now for 25 years. Initially, they were actually quite few powers, but over the years, we now have law-making powers, we have a big budget, we have a power to vary taxation, and we have responsibility for things like health, education, aspects of the economy, transport. So actually quite a lot of areas that touches people's lives on top of obviously having an overview on what happens at local government level. Do you think some of those powers should return to investment or you should take more powers from Westminster? Or do you think the balance is about right? I certainly don't think there's a need to take anything back because I've always been a believer in try and get politics as close as you can to the people. So subsidiarity.”

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  9. “Yes, a little bit. I did put my name in before, but I didn't put my name in the second time. So yeah, it was an unexpected pleasure to become First Minister in the summer after a little bit of a turmoil. Yeah, we remember the time.”

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