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Will Hayward

Mark Drakeford absolutely blows his top when questioned about the Welsh NHS

Mark Drakeford lost his temper with Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies during a tempestuous Senedd exchange over the state of the NHS in Wales. At the end of a fiery back and forth, the First Minister could be seen shouting and was visibly furious. The normally-sedate Welsh Labour leader finished the exchange with a flurry when he started aggressively moving his paper around.

Having been questioned by an increasingly forceful Mr Davies over ambulance waiting times Mr Drakeford fired back: "It is absolutely shocking to me that you think that you can turn up here this afternoon with the mess that your party has made to the budgets of this country, to the reputation of this country around the world, that you promise those people that there will be more to come. And you think you turn up here this afternoon and claim some sort of moral high ground? What sort of world do you belong in?"

The exchange started with Mr Davies questioning the First Minister about the struggling Welsh NHS. The Welsh Ambulance Service, in particular, is under extreme pressure with paramedics unable to drop patients off at hospital due to a lack of capacity.

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