Summary

  • Rhun ap Iorwerth is set to be grilled by opposition parties in the Senedd for First Minister's Questions

  • It comes a day after he joined fellow pro-independence first ministers of Scotland and Northern Ireland to declare that the UK government's time "is coming to an end", and agree to help each other with constitutional reforms

  • The Senedd is returning after an eight-week summer break in which parts of Wales were hit with wildfires, and the country fell behind other UK countries with Pisa education results

  • You can watch the Senedd session live by clicking play at the top of this page from 13:30 BST

Live Reporting

Edited by Adam Hale, with David Deans in the Senedd

  1. First Minister's Questions returns

    Rhun ap Iorwerth and the rest of the Senedd are returning to Cardiff Bay for the first time since the summer recess.

    There could be a lot to get in to. The eight-week summer break saw wildfires blight parts of the country, and Wales fall further behind other UK nations when it came to international school tests.

    Today's session also comes a day after the Plaid Cymru first minister invited his counterparts from Sinn Féin and the SNP to Cardiff to mark the fact that Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland now have governments led by pro-independence politicians.

    The three parties declared that Westminster's time was coming to an end and that no UK government had a right to "block democracy" - although ap Iorwerth does not want to try to hold an independence referendum until at least 2030.

    Opposition parties - including Reform and Labour - attacked Plaid for focusing on independence. It could be one of several topics that may arise during today's session.

    We'll bring you all the developments from the Senedd here. You can watch the session live by clicking play at the top of the page from 13:30 BST.