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Vaughan Gething's unspent campaign money will not go to Labour in U-turn (www.walesonline.co.uk)

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The Labour Party has announced that the surplus funds from Vaughan Gething's campaign to win the Welsh Labour leadership will not be donated to the party. The announcement follows controversy about the environmental convictions of the company that donated £200,000 to Mr Gething's campaign.

Sources from Mr Gething's campaign had previously said that the money would be given to the party and that the First Minister wanted the money to be used to support diversity programmes. However the £31,000 that remains unspent from the huge war chest of £254,000 the Cardiff South and Penarth MS amassed during the leadership race will now be given to "progressive causes".

A Welsh Labour Party spokesperson said: "As agreed by the Officers of the Welsh Executive Committee, Vaughan Gething is donating surplus funds from his campaign to wider progressive causes."

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