Allegations of a stitch-up have been made after Wales’ second biggest trade union decided to nominate Vaughan Gething in the Welsh Labour leadership election.

Both Mr Gething, the Economy Minister, and his rival Jeremy Miles, the Education Minister, were interviewed by the Welsh political committee of Unite the Union.

But before a vote took place to see which of the pair would get Unite’s nomination, Mr Miles was declared ineligible because he had never been a lay official of the union.