When I was chatting to the former First Minister Rhodri Morgan before tonight’s Sharp End, I asked him what his plans were after he retires from the Assembly in May.
‘Gardening, music and writing,’ he said. Will he be writing his memoirs? ‘I’ve already started doing that.’ I don’t know if he’s confirmed this previously; it was news to me.
It’ll certainly be an interesting read when it’s published and given his phenomenal memory for detail you can bet it’ll be a goldmine of behind-the-scenes stories.
I wondered if he had kept a diary over the years to help him remember? No he hasn’t, being more than a little suspicious of the version of history that those who keep political diaries tend to present. And he says he hasn’t yet had to refer to the official archives either, although he is allowed access to them.
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