The Labour leadership campaign has been running for so long that it has a BC date stamp - Before Christmas.

It began on 14 December, the day after Mark Drakeford announced he was standing down.

And it might have dragged on still further given how close the candidates are in terms of policy and their position in the party.

Thanks though to campaign donations, it hasn’t.

But one of these in particular has attracted headlines, namely the £200,000 given to Vaughan Gething’s campaign by a company whose owner has twice been convicted for the illegal dumping of waste.