Politicians and campaigners have called on First Minister Mark Drakeford to withdraw "insulting" comments he made in the Senedd about demands for a Wales only covid inquiry. Speaking in the Senedd on Tuesday, he told the chamber that the the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group were "moving on from continuing to ask for something which is not going to happen".
Campaigners have denied this and called his remarks "shameful" and "not true". His comments came as a response to Conservative Senedd group leader Andrew RT Davies and after the campaign group secured ‘core participant’ status in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
This status will mean that the group, along with others, will have a key role in the process of compiling the UK wide inquiry into the handling of the nation's covid response. However, they have said that the First Minster's comments that as a result the group had given up on a second Wales only inquiry was not true.
