An avid volunteer in his community of Grangetown, Mr Arshad suggested Mr Gething focused on youth engagement and dealing with anti-social behaviour.

Gething, son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, will be the first Black leader of a government in the U.K. - and, by some definitions, of any European country.

Gething, the son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, will be the first Black leader of a government in the U.K. — and, according to him, of any European country.

His father, a vet from Ogmore-by-Sea, a seaside village near the south Wales town of Bridgend, had moved there to work and had met Mr Gething's mother, a chicken farmer.

In a statement this morning Mr Gething, 50, said he will 'begin the process of stepping down as leader of the Welsh Labour Party and, as a result, First Minister'.

Mr Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father, a Welsh vet from Ogmore-by-Sea in Glamorgan, met his mother, a chicken farmer.

Mr Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father, a Welsh vet from Ogmore-by-Sea in Glamorgan, met his mother, a chicken farmer.

Mr Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father, a Welsh vet from Ogmore-by-Sea in Glamorgan, met his mother, a chicken farmer.

Mr Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father, a Welsh vet from Ogmore-by-Sea in Glamorgan, met his mother, a chicken farmer.

Vaughan Gething is set to become the first black person to lead a European country after winning the Welsh Labour leadership election. While making political history in beating rival Jeremy Miles ...

Gething, the son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, will be the first Black leader of a government in the U.K. — and, according to him, of any European country.