The Latest Breaking News from Mark Drakeford

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

The First Minister shared a testy exchange with Andrew RT Davies over the NHS, asking the Welsh Conservative group leader: 'You think you turn up here this afternoon and claim some sort of moral high ground?'

Wales Online · Oct 18, 2022

First Minister Mark Drakeford warns Chancellor's actions will cause a 'deeper, longer lasting' recession

He said: 'We will all pay the price for their failures'

Wales Online · Oct 17, 2022

How much money Wales could raise by increasing income tax

Mark Drakeford has said he is 'powerfully considering' increasing income tax in Wales in order to make up for other budget shortfalls

Wales Online · Oct 16, 2022

Plaid Cymru calls for income tax to be raised in Wales

First Minister Mark Drakeford said raising income tax will be "powerfully considered"

Wales Online · Oct 12, 2022

We asked Liz Truss why she's not called Mark Drakeford since becoming Prime Minister

Every other recent Prime Minister has called Wales' leader on the day they took office and even King Charles managed to ring devolved leaders within 24 hours of his mother dying

Wales Online · Oct 11, 2022

Andrew Tickell: Leaders' speeches are a lost art and can’t hide the truth of Liz Truss

WELL, that went well. Veteran broadcaster Ber­nard Ponsonby described it as “the poorest conference speech I’ve ever heard from a prime…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 9, 2022

Controversial plan to cut down trees that campaigners say is to make way for more parking space given go-ahead

Cardiff Civic Society claim the developers want to cut down the trees in order to make space for more car parking but the owners say it is "not necessarily true"

Wales Online · Oct 6, 2022

Growing backlash over Mark Drakeford's claim 'the world has moved on' over Welsh Covid inquiry

The First Minister is being called on to withdraw comments that families have called 'insulting' and 'not true'

Wales Online · Oct 6, 2022

Mark Drakeford accused of insulting campaigners for a Covid inquiry

Campaigners say that the First Minister "lied in the Senedd" when he claimed they had moved on from asking for a Wales only inquiry

Wales Online · Oct 5, 2022

Thousands of inquiries into hospital-acquired Covid infections in Wales have not yet begun

Only a small fraction of inquiries into why people caught Covid in hospitals have begun in Wales

Wales Online · Oct 4, 2022