Alun Davies won't face party discipline

First Minister Carwyn Jones has dismissed as "nonsense" a call from Opposition Leader Andrew RT Davies for sacked minister Alun Davies to lose the Labour party whip. Alun Davies was fired for trying to get his civil servants to give him information about farm subsidies paid to five opposition AMs.

In bad tempered exchanges, the First Minister challenged the Leader of the Opposition for failing to attend a meeting with the Prince of Wales last week. Andrew RT Davies replied that apart from being ill himself, his mother-in-law had suffered a stroke and he had apologised for missing the meeting.

Amid uproar in the Senedd, Carwyn Jones said he withdrew his comment and apologised for it.