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Jones's initial attempts to form a three-party coalition with the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties failed when the Liberal Democrat leadership backed-out of coalition talks.

This " Rainbow Coalition " would have formed the first ever PC-led government.

With the reappointment of Welsh Labour's Rhodri Morgan as First Minister, the Liberal Democrat general party membership demanded that their leadership restart negotiations with Plaid and the Conservative parties.

However, by now Jones had entered into coalition talks with Labour in attempts to form a stable government with Plaid's AMs approving a deal with the Labour Party on 27 June 2007.

Labour's special party conference on 6 July 2007 approved the coalition ; Plaid Cymru's conference the next day sealed the arrangement.