Kirsty will not be standing in the Welsh general election of next year. She is one of the few remaining members of the Senedd who was there at the start. She was also an inspiration to many within and without the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Apart from her latter-day work as minister for education (and one trusts that the structures she has put in place will not be ripped up again) she has legislation maintaining a proper nurse-to-patient ratio to her name.
Politics is notoriously destructive of family relationships yet Kirsty has managed to achieve so much in Cardiff Bay while remaining a farmer's wife and mother of three daughters who, one gathers, are on the brink of great things themselves. Jane Dodds has posted that Kirsty will not be lost to politics entirely as she will remain active in Brecon and Radnorshire.
Memories of those early days of Welsh devolution are gradually coming back and I shall no doubt muse on them at a later date. In the meantime, I wish Richard, Kirsty and family as stress-free a post-Senedd life as the current emergency allows.
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