Mark Drakeford resigns with immediate effect

[Cardiffdaffs]

Well he leaves behind the worst healthcare system in the UK, the poorest education system and a transport system that is a joke. If this is doing well - I'd hate to see what a bad job would have been! All while getting more per head of population than England. He was a master of doing more with less and blaming Westminster. Having lived in South Wales for 25 years I am not sad to see him go!

I have relatives who live in South Wales and in the main they don't share your views on him. On your point about the Welsh Healthcare system yes it is less efficient despite more beds pp but The OECD has warned that Welsh health boards lacked the capacity to drive improvement and innovation, and that central government needed to do more to support them and hold them to account. Also Wales has certainly a proportionately older population with a higher mortality rate than England. Transport systems around the UK are a joke and again this is lack of a central transport strategy and funding.

Here is a more balanced view of his legacy.

Mark Drakeford: a steady operator thrust into the spotlight by Covid

Wales’s departing first minister won admiration in the crisis but problems in health and education blighted his record

www.theguardian.com