Oh dear. It seems that Welsh Labour are at it again. Running Cardiff Bay ought to be the easiest job in politics: bash the Tories, soft soap the nationalists and wrap yourself in the Y Ddraig Goch. But some of its representatives in the Senedd can’t even get that right. For Steerpike hears that Julie Morgan, Labour’s deputy minister for social services, has caused a bit of a storm in the Welsh parliament about a deeply sensitive matter.
Morgan, who has represented Cardiff North since 2011, is sponsoring and hosting a Holocaust Memorial Day event next week – an event that doesn’t actually mention the Holocaust’s Jewish victims on its invitation. An email has gone out from her office titled ‘Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Gypsies, Roma and Travellers – Remembering All’ with no mention at all of the largest group of victims killed by Nazi Germany.
Laura Anne Jones, Conservative MS for South Wales East, told Mr S that she was:
Shocked that it was deemed appropriate to send this invite out without mention of Jewish people.
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