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Conor Gogarty

Mark Drakeford criticises Boris Johnson's 'bully boy Britain' approach

Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has accused former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson of a "bully boy Britain" approach to working with leaders of the devolved nations.

Mr Drakeford appeared on The Rest is Politics podcast this week for an indepth conversation with former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Tory minister Rory Stewart. When it was suggested that Mr Drakeford's relationship with Mr Johnson had appeared "very, very difficult", the Welsh Labour leader replied: "I worked with a series of different Prime Ministers, including Conservative Prime Ministers, and I think there was a very big contrast between relations with Theresa May when she was Prime Minister and with her successor.

"I disagreed with Mrs May on almost anything you'd like to say and was terribly frustrated by what I thought was her fundamental mistake in regarding Brexit as a 'winner takes all' sort of referendum. But I would describe her as an instinctive democrat. If you were in a room with her and she was Prime Minister, she would make a conscious effort to make sure that anybody in the room... had an opportunity to contribute their view."

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