{"id":582025,"date":"2026-05-13T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:48:13","slug":"rhun-ap-iorwerth-unveils-plaid-cymrus-first-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhun ap Iorwerth unveils Plaid Cymru&#8217;s first cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There are 42 people (excluding Rhun ap Iorwerth) that he has to choose from when making these important choices. A good start would be to look at who were their spokespeople in the last term &#8211; people like Mabon ap Gwynfor spoke on health, and Llyr Gruffydd on rural affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But there are new (or returning) faces too. Nerys Evans may have had a break from the Senedd, but she had a spell here when it was the Assembly and has experience running business outside of politics, and a first time member Anna Brychan, spent a decade as director of National Association of Head Teachers Cymru and is an assistant Dean at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Dafydd Trystan is a former party chair, and has been spotted going into Cathays Park today on his bike &#8211; active travel is a previous role he has held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are 42 people (excluding Rhun ap Iorwerth) that he has to choose from when making these important&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,152549,140204,56,54,55,5554],"class_list":["post-582025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-plaid-cymru","tag-senedd","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-welsh-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}