He said it is made clear that the "person is required to have particular regards to act in the spirit of collective responsibility, the main principles of the ministerial code.

She is a member of cross-party groups on Active travel, Clean Air, Diabetes, Digital in Wales, Gambling-related harm, Nursing and Midwifery, School food and Women's health.

She responded to the question by attributing the need for increased security to "the failure to come to a peace settlement around Palestine and Israel" and stated that "the fact that the Jewish synagogue in Cyncoed is, is become one of these, you know, fortress is really uncomfortable."

[13] Both candidates in the then-ongoing 2018 Welsh Labour leadership election, Mark Drakeford and Vaughan Gething also condemned her comments.

Rathbone was issued with a formal warning, suspended from the Labour group in the Assembly for 6 weeks, and was ordered to undergo anti-semitism training in February 2019.