‘I think they have not done what the science would’ve told them they should do’, he adds about the UK government.
Any solution to the divide between authority to order lockdowns and responsibility for paying for it must mean more accountability, not less.
Also: Drakeford strikes a deal with the Welsh Nationalists in Cardiff Bay; Sturgeon insists she’s going nowhere.
When the rules are set in Cardiff Bay and the tab is picked up in London, there are lots of cracks to fall through.
Whilst the leadership talks up 16 MSs, activists are angry about missing so many target seats and failing to mobilise the 2019 vote.
In 2007, it almost looked like the a plausible anti-Labour alternative for Wales. But things are very different today.
Drakeford insists that “the United Kingdom has to be fundamentally reformed if it is to survive”.
For this year’s Senedd elections, vote for a Welsh Government that will work with the UK Government, not against it.
The First Minister of Wales claims that ministers have done “the least they can get away with rather than the most that is needed”.
McDonnell wanted a state-run pharmaceutical industry. So now we will never know how it would got on with producing Covid vaccines.
The different administrations are all in different places with increasing bad blood between them. Also, devosceptics look set to win seats in Wales.
Also: another miserable week in Government for the SNP; the deep damage of the Irish Protocol grow clearer by the day; and more.
The Welsh government has found itself getting involved in an argument about sanitary towels, thanks to its bizarre policy.
The First Minister’s absurd decree banning the sale of ‘non-essential’ goods spotlights the tension between devolved lockdowns and reserved finances.
I am very pleased that the Treasury has refused to finance Mark Drakeford’s anti-science socialist agenda.