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Under Mark Drakeford

Carwyn Jones resigned as the first minister of Wales and leader of Welsh Labour in the aftermath of the death of Carl Sargeant in 2018. Three candidates stood in the 2018 Welsh Labour leadership election to succeed him, including Mark Drakeford, Vaughan Gething and Eluned Morgan. Morgan had previously called for Welsh Labour to end clear red water after its performance in the 2007 assembly election in favour of a shift to the political centre-ground; on this occasion, she said it was time for the strategy to be reconsidered now that UK Labour had shifted back to the left under Corbyn's leadership. In its place, Morgan argued for a new strategy where Welsh Labour would broaden its policy programme to appeal to more voters and focus "not [on] what's happening in London" but on local needs across Wales. However, she also said the party was right to adopt its own distinct policy stances on important issues such as education or healthcare. Gething said the strategy was no longer needed, as Welsh Labour was now seen as more centrist than UK Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. Drakeford, like Corbyn, was on the left of the Labour Party. He was the only member of the Welsh Government to support his leadership campaign in 2015.

though she added that the party in Wales had been

and Drakeford called for the clear red water strategy to be reconsidered;

who helped create the strategy as Rhodri Morgan's special adviser in the early 2000s, argued that there was less need for the