The Shane Williams of Welsh politics

"CARWYN JONES is not just the First Minister of Wales, he is the first person to hold that office without an apprenticeship in Westminster. He has cut his teeth in other places – the law courts and the Assembly itself – and it shows. His apprenticeship for high office has come instead from diligent application to the institution he belongs to and his rise has been purposeful and purposefully gradual.

http://waleshome.org/2011/03/the-shane-williams-of-welsh-politics/