“I’m happy it failed,” she said.

Some commentators are calling this Labour’s race to lose. That finish line is not yet quite in.Welsh Labour's most senior council leader says it would "probably be better" if his party did not accept leftover donations to Vaughan Gething from a controversial waste company.

The first minister will have to hand over any unspent leadership campaign donations, including £200,000 from Dauson Environmental Group, to his party.Andrew Morgan suggested that might not be a good idea "because of the huge public and media storm".Welsh Labour has been asked to comment.

Andrew Morgan is leader of the Welsh Local Government Association and Rhondda Cynon Taf council.It is not yet clear how much cash is unspent from Mr Gething's campaign, and how much of that might be from Dauson Environmental Group.

The £200,000 donation was controversial because the owner of the group, David John Neal, has twice been convicted of environmental offences.

Mr Gething raised more than £250,000.They have been joined in recent days by big-name Wall Street figures. Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman - who supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election - has warned of "a self-induced, economic nuclear winter".

Even one of Trump's top aides, billionaire businessman Elon Musk, is reportedly against the tariffs, and spent time over the weekend lobbying the president to reverse them, according to two anonymous sources cited by the Washington Post.The tariffs have been designed to target almost all of the world's countries.

Trump claims that a 10% tariff on all nations and much higher rates on individual countries will boost the US economy and protect jobs.Companies that bring the foreign goods into the country have to pay the tax to the government.