Liz Truss still hasn't made contact with Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford despite being Prime Minister for over two weeks. The three previous Prime Ministers — Theresa May, Boris Johnson and David Cameron — all rang the First Minister of Wales on the day they became Prime Minister. It's understood King Charles also made the call, despite his mother having died in the previous 24 hours and the enormous scale of the operation that followed.
Liz Truss became Prime Minister on September 6 but is yet to pick up the phone to the leader of Wales. Speaking in Plenary on Tuesday, September 21, Mark Drakeford said that he "hoped that it will be possible to conduct relationships between the UK Government and the other nations of the United Kingdom in that spirit of mutual respect" but that "there has been no opportunity as yet to test the appetite of the new Prime Minister for such an approach."
He added: "On the day that he was appointed the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, telephoned me and telephoned the First Minister of Scotland, and the same thing happened on the first day that Theresa May was appointed and the day that David Cameron was appointed. Now, I understand that the new Prime Minister has not had the first week that she would have expected and that business as usual has not been characteristic of recent days, and now the Prime Minister has left the country. But, I hope that it will not long be delayed before she does find an opportunity to speak with the elected leaders of other Parliaments in the United Kingdom."
