We will be wrapping up our live coverage of the day very soon.

It has been a busy morning for Welsh politicians who have been pressed and challenged by media on the circuit of political programmes.

Here’s a rundown of what we’ve heard:

• Interim Welsh Labour leader Ken Skates said Labour needs to avoid the “blame game” and come together after admitting Friday’s defeat was “catastrophic”. He said his party needs to be “forensic” when it started the post-mortem into its losses.
• Plaid Cymru leader Rhun Ap Iorwerth Rhun Ap Iorwerth said he hopes to become the party’s first ever first minister on Tuesday. He also said a commission will be set up to look at Welsh independence.
• Reform UK MS Llyr Powell told BBC Politics Wales his party’s result – taking 34 seats to become the second largest party – shows its “trajectory”.
• Jane Dodds, the only Liberal Democrat to be elected to the Senedd, said she plans to abstain in the vote on who should be first minister.
• Paul Davies, the former Conservatives leader in the Senedd, wants to be the new Llywydd, or Speaker, of the Senedd.
• Anthony Slaughter, the Welsh Greens leader, said backing ap Iorwerth as first minister, was a "no brainer" and confirmed negotiations on forming a government had not taken place yet.

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Mark Palmer
Assistant editor, BBC Wales

Former Welsh Labour MP and UK government cabinet minister, Lord Peter Hain, says Keir Starmer has to "stop making stupid mistakes" if he wants to carry on as prime minister.

The former Neath MP, who served under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the "mistakes" included appointing Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador and the original plan to change the winter fuel allowance "which really destroyed people's belief that this was a Labour government".

Speaking on the World This Weekend on Radio 4, he said Starmer "has to change or he will be changed by the party or by voters. It's got to be real change not just cosmetic change of the kind he's indulged in in the past".

Hain, who campaigned for Labour in the Senedd elections, said: "I've never known it so bad for Labour in half a century of door knocking."

Without change Hain said Labour faced "an existential crisis".

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He’s seen his party take a seat in the Senedd for the first time, but did you know Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter was the singer of the first-ever band from South Africa to release a punk record in the UK?

Here’s everything you need to know about the punk pioneer who has made history.

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The Green Party says backing Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth as the next first minister of Wales is a “no-brainer”.

Anthony Slaughter, the party's leader, says ap Iorwerth has a “clear mandate” to lead after winning the most seats.

“It’s a historic moment, the Greens are in the Senedd and that will make such a difference,” he says.

“There are multiple crisis facing us – the cost of living, the climate nature crisis – which need co-operation where people agree.”

He confirmed discussions about forming a government have not taken place yet, but adds: "It’s a no-brainer. Plaid has such a clear mandate to be the next first minister. Reform are nowhere close, thankfully, so he has our support completely."

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Tomos Livingstone
BBC Wales politics

The path is now clear for Rhun ap Iorwerth to become first minister.

There has to be a vote in the Senedd - which could be as soon as Tuesday - but, crucially, he just needs more votes than another candidate, rather than a majority of all Members of the Senedd (MSs), to be the winner.

Plaid Cymru will provide 43 votes from their MSs and we now know the two Green MSs will vote for ap Iorwerth too.

Jane Dodds, the sole Lib Dem MS, will abstain and although they haven’t officially confirmed it, it’s certain the Labour group of nine will too.

So even if you added Reform's 34 MSs to the Conservatives' seven - there's no mathematical way to block ap Iorwerth from being Wales' next FM.

The Green Party have publicly backed Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth to be the next first minister in the Senedd.

Anthony Slaughter, leader of the Welsh Greens, says ap Iorwerth has a "clear mandate" to lead after winning the most seats in a historic Welsh Parliament election, describing the decision as a "no brainer".

He also says he is open to discussions with Plaid Cymru about a potential agreement to form a government, but they have not started yet.

Ap Iorwerth told BBC Wales he hopes to become FM on Tuesday.

Yesterday, Plaid Cymru supporters broke out into song outside the Senedd, and sang the national anthem as leader Rhun ap Iorwerth was on stage.

Alongside the new voting system, the constituencies also changed.

Wales was split into 16 new voting regions, and within each constituency there were six MSs selected.

There was also another new rule where those standing for election had to live in Wales.

These elections will also happen more frequently, so Plaid Cymru have won this election, but they only have four years until the next one to make their mark.

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This election has been dramatic, but it was always going to be - the entire voting system changed.

The idea was better representation, not just more seats, microphones and empty coffee cups.

Previously you had two Senedd votes, so you voted for two MSs. One for your local area and another for your region. But this time around, people got just one vote and it had to be a political party rather than an individual.

This is called the D’Hondt method. So, how does it work?

First, it counts how many votes each party gets, then it starts giving out seats one by one. After a party wins a seat, its votes are halved, so it’s harder for them to win the next one. This keeps going until all 6 seats in your local area have been filled.

The aim is to ensure that your vote actually counts, and to be a fair way to share seats in elections, so parties with more votes get more seats, but smaller parties still get a chance.

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Wales is devolved which means the Welsh government has full law-making powers in a number of areas such as health, education, transport, rural affairs and the environment.

The Welsh government is the party with the most seats, and it oversees the running of many public services.

But before any new laws are passed, they must be voted through by a majority of Members of the Senedd (MSs).

This is the Welsh Parliament, or Senedd Cymru, and is made up of all the politicians elected to Cardiff Bay.

Its role is to scrutinise the Welsh government's work, including proposed new laws that ministers bring forward.

Plaid Cymru has 43 seats, six short of what they need for a majority, so to pass any laws, they must get support from some of the other parties - any of Reform's 34 politicians, Labour's nine, Conservatives' seven, Greens' two and Liberal Democrats' one.

Gareth Lewis
BBC Wales political editor

Plaid Cymru are clearly going to go to Westminster and they're going to make demands for more powers, for better funding. It's something that they've been going on about for so so long, and it puts the UK Labour government, whoever the Prime Minister might be in the future, in a bit of a dilemma.

Because do you grant that to a Plaid Cymru-led government when you haven't done that for a Labour government?

There is also another flip side for Plaid because if they cannot get a better deal, they can use the same "blame game that Labour managed to do for so long with the Conservative government in Westminster".

That worked really, really well for Labour over the years, and we saw what happened when there was a double incumbency. There was no one left to blame.

But Plaid Cymru will need to deliver something before the end of the Senedd term.

Voters are very fickle, voters are very impatient, voters are hurting, and they want to see that change brought about really quite quickly

Liberal Democrat MS for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd, Jane Dodds, says she would not support Rhun Ap Iorwerth in an FM vote next week, and is planning to abstain.

“I am really clear we are not going to back any Reform UK First Minster. I am going to abstain if it’s Rhun’s name that goes forward. We don’t support independence and Plaid don’t have a majority so I will be abstaining.“

Speaking on her way to be sworn in as the only Lib Dem Senedd member of the new parliament, Dodds said she had a “very brief congratulatory phone call “ with Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth but was open minded about what lay ahead.

"Let’s see if there are more discussions,” she added, saying she wanted to focus on getting more money into public services and for struggling families.

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Paul Davies, former leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, says he'd like to be the new Llywydd, or Speaker of the Senedd.

Plaid Cymru's Elin Jones, who has held the role since 2016, has already announced she's standing down.

Davies, Ceredigion Penfro MS, would be the first Conservative to hold the role, but will need backing from the either the larger Plaid Cymru or Reform groups to get the job.

He said he had "the experience to champion the Welsh Parliament". A vote in the Senedd could come as early as Tuesday. No other candidates have yet put their names forward.

How did Rhun ap Iorwerth feel when the crowds broke out in song?

Speaking earlier, Rhun ap Iorwerth said the UK government could punish Wales for turning its back on Labour - or it can reflect.

Responding to this, Jo Stevens tells Teleri Glyn Jones on Politics Wales that the UK Labour government is there for "all our nations".

"We will govern for the benefit of the people of this country, we came into government to do that," she says.

Jo Stevens, Welsh Secretary, tells Teleri Glyn Jones that the UK government's position on more devolution powers is "if it benefits and makes people's lives better in Wales, of course we will do things".

"We are the party of devolution," she adds.

She continues that any requests will be looked at "carefully, thoroughly and responded to properly".

Jo Stevens tells Sunday Politics Wales that Labour will have a "mature, professional and collaborative" relationship with Plaid Cymru.

"I am here to be Wales' voice around the Cabinet table," she says.

Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth earlier told Vaughan Roderick on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that he will "guide" the UK prime minister to start looking at Wales in a different way.

Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens tells Teleri Glyn-Jones that a number of issues played into ballot boxes.

"The Welsh government delivered some wonderful things, but I think there was a frustration with the standard of public services," she says.

She adds that Eluned Morgan had a short period of time to turn things around.

Asked if immigration will play a part in the next Senedd term, Powell says: “As long as important to the people of Wales then we’ll be talking about it.

"If we look at every poll that’s come out, immigration is one of the top issues for them.

"I’m unashamed to say I’ll stand up for what my constituents want me to talk about.”

Teleri Glyn Jones asks Powell what kind of opposition his party will be.

He says: “We’ve got to add a higher level of scrutiny to what this place has ever had.

“Rhun says he has a 100 day plan, I didn’t see a lot in that. He’s made a plan to make a plan, so we really need to make sure we get in the detail of what this new government will do.

"The budget will be a priority for us to make sure money goes where it needs to.”

She asks if he will collaborate with other parties.

“We’ll vote on issues which are important for the people of Wales and what they’ve given us a mandate to do based on our manifesto," he says.

"I’m not going to be tribal, I’ve been elected by the people of my constituency and they expect me to do the job. That’s what I’m going to do.”