Wales' First Minister has said "13 years of erosion" under a Conservative government in Westminster led to the riots in Ely. Talking to the Guardian Mark Drakeford compared the unrest witnessed in Ely to the bread riots in 1991.
He said: "It’s 13 years of the erosion, the systematic erosion, of the things that sustain community life. You fray social fabric at your peril and we see what happened on Monday.”
Mr Drakeford represents the Ely area within his Cardiff West constituency as an MS and was working as a youth justice worker in the early 1990s. Meeting community leaders in Ely ahead of a vigil in memory of best friends Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, he admitted that the Labour-led Welsh government and Cardiff council had questions to answer about how they were supporting the area.
