NPT council leader bound for Europe?

BBC-2 Wales' "AM:PM" programme has reported rumours (well-founded, according to Vaughan Roderick) that Eluned Morgan is standing down as MEP in 2009. Unless Welsh Labour reruns its selection process (any Labourites willing to comment on their rules?), that would automatically put Derek Vaughan, councillor for Neath North and leader of the county borough council, at number one on the party's euro list.