{"id":618245,"date":"2026-06-03T04:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:14:11","slug":"welsh-first-ministers-questions-rhun-ap-iorwerth-to-face-senedd-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618245\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh First Minister&#8217;s Questions: Rhun ap Iorwerth to face Senedd members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big moment for the oppositionpublished at 13:39 BST 2 June<\/p>\n<p>13:39 BST 2 June<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/66bc7433-f4b0-4993-87b9-8ea71b78a4d9.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Gareth Lewis<br \/>BBC Wales political editor<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Questions to the first minister is an opportunity for the opposition parties to set the agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The same goes for the first minister, depending on how he answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We already know some of the questions that Rhun ap Iorwerth will face because MSs have to apply via a ballot to ask them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But questions from opposition leaders are an unknown quantity, which means a lot of eyes and ears will be on Reform\u2019s Dan Thomas, Labour\u2019s Ken Skates and Darren Millar from the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Thomas, as for ap Iorwerth, this is a big moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Does he continue along the lines of what he\u2019s said so far since the election, that Plaid should park constitutional arguments and focus on improving public services or does he have another line of attack up his sleeve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big moment for the oppositionpublished at 13:39 BST 2 June 13:39 BST 2 June Gareth LewisBBC Wales&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618245","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=618245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}