first minister
The principal minister of a ruler or state.
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Not forgetting Baroness Eluned Morgan the First Minister of Cymru. 🏴
Your new MS will earn £79,817 a year from Thursday. The First Minister? £174,600. Here's the full breakdown of what your elected representatives will be paid in the new Senedd 👇
Other parties running negative campaigns, says Swinney The First Minister spent the last day of the campaign in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
Mr Swinney sent me an email, asking me to remind 5 folk to vote for our freedom, on Thursday. Pass it on! Send a text. Forward a WhatsApp message. Pick up the phone. Have the conversation. Every single contact matters…
6/ Onto the Welsh elections… Welsh Labour leader and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan claimed Reform UK hadn't said it would keep free prescriptions in Wales. Reform UK's Welsh manifesto didn't mention prescription…
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The principal minister of a ruler or state.
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(Canada, often in plural) The prime minister or a provincial or territorial premier.
The Welsh first minister has defended his decision to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, saying he feels that the citizens of Wales want their country’s leader there despite concerns about human rights and working conditions.
“Not forgetting Baroness Eluned Morgan the First Minister of Cymru. 🏴”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Your new MS will earn £79,817 a year from Thursday. The First Minister? £174,600. Here's the full breakdown of what your elected representatives will be paid in the new Senedd 👇”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Other parties running negative campaigns, says Swinney The First Minister spent the last day of the campaign in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Mr Swinney sent me an email, asking me to remind 5 folk to vote for our freedom, on Thursday. Pass it on! Send a text. Forward a WhatsApp message. Pick up the phone. Have the conversation. Every single contact matters now for Scotland. John Swinney First Minister and SNP leader”
— Bluesky· May 2026“6/ Onto the Welsh elections… Welsh Labour leader and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan claimed Reform UK hadn't said it would keep free prescriptions in Wales. Reform UK's Welsh manifesto didn't mention prescriptions, but the party has said elsewhere it would keep them free.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(UK politics) A leader of a devolved government such as Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Yousaf is almost certain to be confirmed as Scotland’s next first minister in a nominal vote at Holyrood on Tuesday but now has to bridge those divides by bringing the SNP’s warring wings together.
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