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. I am disappointed and confused as this event should be about remembering everyone effected by the Holocaust, and of course that clearly includes Jews.
A spokesperson for Julie Morgan MS said:
This is a long-standing annual event being sponsored in Julie Morgan MS’s capacity as an individual Senedd Member. The event has always received cross-party support and ties in with the annual Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Senedd. This is an inclusive event, and as the invitation makes clear, the event aims to remember all victims of the Holocaust, including those who can often be forgotten about.
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