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'Pivotal moment' as Swinney attends leaders summit
Welsh first minister Rhun ap Iorwerth and John Swinney previously met at Bute House
John Swinney has claimed the UK is at a "pivotal moment of constitutional change" - ahead of a summit with the leaders of Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein in Cardiff.
Swinney, Plaid's leader Rhun ap Iorwerth, and Sinn Fein's president Mary Lou McDonald and vice-president Michelle O'Neill, will discuss how the parties can work together on their shared interests.
The gathering marks the fact that, for the first time, the three devolved governments are represented by three nationalist first ministers (although O'Neill represents one half of Stormont's power-sharing administration).
All three seem keen to exploit this new political dynamic. But the question is, how exactly?
After all, when you dig beneath the surface of their shared goal of leaving the UK, the circumstances facing them look very different indeed.
Swinney is pushing for a second vote on independence following his win in May's Scottish elections.
First ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to meet in Cardiff
In Wales, ap Iorwerth - who leads the Senedd's first pro-independence administration - is in less of a rush for a referendum, previously ruling one out for this parliament, and instead focusing on the devolution of more powers.
Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, ap Iorweth acknowledged the differing contexts.