Covid inquiry live: Mark Drakeford says all decisions decided by cabinet

It’s Mark Drakeford’s last week as first minister after greater than 5 years on the helm, and he’s set to offer an entire day of proof to the inquiry, following his preliminary look final week.

Throughout Covid, Drakeford was in the end accountable for the nation’s lockdown guidelines – his authorities is in control of the NHS, schooling and councils.

He secured a second time period as first minister after the 2021 Senedd elections, the place Welsh labour gained 30 of the 60 seats obtainable.

Main insurance policies throughout his tenure embody the scrapping of the M4 aid street in 2019 and the introduction of the 20mph default pace restrict in September.

Drakeford, born and introduced up in Carmarthen, turned a councillor with South Glamorgan County Council in 1985 and went on to turn into a lecturer at Swansea College and later a professor of social coverage at Cardiff College.

Mark Drakeford’s spouse, Clare, died out of the blue in January aged 71. The couple had lived collectively in Pontcanna, Cardiff, for 30 years. He stated that work was what saved him going as he was “unprepared for the ferocity of grief”.