Expected to be the only candidate to lead Welsh Labour, she will have to use her experience to unite her party
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Earlier this summer, a party was held at a church hall in Ely, a housing estate a few miles west of Cardiff city centre, to mark the 30 years Eluned Morgan has spent in frontline politics.
It was a chance to celebrate how Morgan went from an idealistic youngster picking coffee in Nicaragua alongside the Sandinistas in the 1980s to seats in the European parliament, the House of Lords and the Welsh parliament, the Senedd.