The outgoing Labour leader will have final talks with his senior ministers in No 10 before taking his last PMQs Tell us: what do you want from the next Labour leader and UK prime minister? Ken Skates has been confirmed as the new leader of Welsh Labour after the party’s historic Senedd election defeat, the Press Association reports. Skates, a former journalist for the Wrexham Leader newspaper and BBC Wales, had been interim leader since the resignation of Eluned Morgan in May after the election. I am deeply honoured to have the unanimous backing of my colleagues in the Senedd in seeking the leadership of Welsh Labour. I joined the party as a 14-year-old, and my belief still stands that no child’s future should be determined by their background. The big thing I’d say is this is part of an o