With the Easter break coming to an end and a new parliamentary term about to start, it will be the first session for the new national government in Wales, with the new First Minister and his new cabinet beginning the daunting task of addressing a huge number of difficult policy and funding challenges, as well as ongoing expectation/threat (delete as appropriate!) of a union-wide general election being called at short notice.

We recently hosted a live Twitter/X Space with a fantastic mix of policy and politics guests to discuss not only the election of Vaughan Gething as Welsh Labour leader, but also his new cabinet, and some of the big portfolio challenges ahead of them - specifically health, education, and agriculture.

Here we present our event in edited form, with our guests:

-Sarah Murphy MS (Welsh Labour, Bridgend): @Sarah4Bridgend

- Tom Hoyles (Wales & West of England Policy Officer, GMB Union): @thoyles

- Terry Mackie (Educator and Author): @TerryMac51

- Lowri Jackson (Health Policy and Communications): @LowriRhiannon

- Geraint Davies (Farmer, NRW & FWAG Wales): @Fedwarian

And your hosts:

Matthew Hexter: @Hexter101

Ceri Davies: @CeriTheViking

As always, you can find the latest from us @hiraethpod on most social media, including Twitter/X here: https://twitter.com/HiraethPod