Wales’ first minister has claimed that Boris Johnson’s “history” is “catching up with him”.
In a highly-charged intervention in the partygate row, Mark Drakeford said he is not surprised the prime minister has become embroiled in controversy over Downing Street parties during COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 and 2021.
“If I’m truthful about it, the prime minister is someone who’s been sacked from two previous jobs for not telling the truth,” the leader of Welsh Labour said.
“I think The Times wrote an editorial on the eve of the December 2019 election pointing to the many flaws in the prime minister’s record and in many ways, I think what you see is his history catching up with him.”
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And Mr Drakeford also claimed this week’s decision to scrap Plan B COVID measures in England was a bid to try and distract attention from the partygate saga.
“Everything that goes on in Whitehall and Westminster at the moment for the UK government is seen exclusively through the lens of, how does this make a difference to the efforts that are being made to shore-up the position of the prime minister,” he said.
Mark Drakeford claimed Boris Johnson’s government is ‘simply not capable of doing the ordinary business of government’
“This is a government that at the moment is simply not capable of doing the ordinary business of government in a competent and sensible way because it is overwhelmed by the headlines that surround dreadful events that went on in Downing Street.”
Mr Drakeford made the comments as he announced Wales would be continuing on its roadmap towards returning back to alert level zero.
He said the country has “passed the Omicron peak” and can keep…
Source : skynews
