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Mark Drakeford

Mark Drakeford is the First Minister of Wales

June 2024

  • Welsh Labour leader Vaughan Gething

    The Guardian view on Labour’s Welsh dilemma: winning a landslide with a lame duck leader

  • Rishi Sunak, debate chair Julie Etchingham and Keir Starmer.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election: Starmer and Sunak clash over taxes, the NHS and immigration in head-to-head TV debate – as it happened

March 2024

  • Jeremy Hunt appeared in front of the Lords economic affairs committee on Tuesday

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Jeremy Hunt hints at October election – as it happened

  • Drakeford, who is to be replaced by Vaughan Gething, received a standing ovation after his speech in the Senedd

    2:10

    Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford makes emotional resignation speech – video

  • Mark Drakeford

    Boris Johnson ‘largely absent’ early in Covid crisis, Welsh leader tells inquiry

  • Mark Drakeford said Michael Gove's presence was important but wasn't 'determinative' in the way a meeting with the prime minister would have been

    1:57

    Boris Johnson 'largely absent' early in Covid crisis, says Welsh first minister – video

February 2024

  • Simon Jenkins

    Northern Ireland will leave the union, and Scotland could too. True devolution is the only way to save it

    Simon Jenkins
    Yes, there are leadership crises everywhere, but make no mistake: the UK’s future rests on devolving more powers, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

January 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Wales has been brave enough to completely rethink the hated council tax. Take note, England

    Polly Toynbee
    The Senedd’s plan to shift the burden of this levy away from those on lower incomes shows how real levelling up can work, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • Keir Starmer with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the Fergus gas terminal in Peterhead, Scotland.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ed Balls says Starmer should perform ‘big U-turn’ and drop £28bn as size of green jobs plan – as it happened

    Former shadow chancellor says people need to hear Labour say they are commitment to ‘sound public finances’ over worries about taxation increase
  • Kevin Hollindrake, the business and trade minister, told parliament that options have been ‘devised’ for dealing with outstanding convictions.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Government has ‘devised options’ to deal with outstanding Horizon convictions in Post Office scandal, minister says – as it happened

    Government hopes to soon be able to announce measures for resolving outstanding criminal convictions, business minister Kevin Hollinrake says

December 2023

  • Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford at the Welsh government building in Cardiff.

    Mark Drakeford: ‘I hope people will see we did challenging and radical things’

  • Kemi Badenoch arrives at Downing Street for the last cabinet meeting of 2023.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Kemi Badenoch defends trans guidance for schools after attacks from Tory right – as it happened

  • Mark Drakeford at the Resolution Foundation conference in central London on 4 December 2023

    The Guardian view on Mark Drakeford: devolution’s frustrated fan

  • David Cameron at the Lords European affairs committee.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    David Cameron defends UK’s decision not to vote for UN resolution demanding ceasefire in Gaza – as it happened

  • As England suffered the chaos of Boris Johnson, Wales had Mark Drakeford. Here’s why we’ll miss him

    Richard Wyn Jones

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clash over homelessness and the UK economy at PMQs – as it happened

  • Mark Drakeford: a steady operator thrust into the spotlight by Covid

  • Mark Drakeford to step down as Wales first minister

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    One Nation Tory MPs vow to drop support for Rwanda bill if there are amendments as ERG calls for it to be rewritten – as it happened

October 2023

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer responding to a statement in the House of Commons about the Israel-Hamas war.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer writes to Labour councillors in attempt to quash concerns he’s too pro-Israel – as it happened

    Letter from Labour leader stresses his concern for international law and sympathy with the plight of the Palestinian people
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