{"id":122285,"date":"2023-12-17T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=122285"},"modified":"2023-12-17T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:29:16","slug":"mark-drakefords-new-replacement-will-be-100-times-worse-as-tory-takes-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/mark-drakefords-new-replacement-will-be-100-times-worse-as-tory-takes-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Drakefords new replacement will be 100 times worse as Tory takes aim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Drakeford announces he’s stepping down as Welsh Labour leader<\/h3>\n

Labour’s former Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford stepped down last week after a litany of controversial policies which provoked fury across Wales.<\/p>\n

He became infamous for imposing 20mph speed limits across the Principality, closing supermarket aisles during covid to stop people buying things they wanted, banning the building of new roads in the name of climate change and producing the worst education and NHS outcomes in the whole of the UK.<\/p>\n

Concerningly, Sir Keir Starmer has said that Wales under Drakeford “is the model” a Labour government for the UK would follow.<\/p>\n

But speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Conservative Welsh Secretary David T.C. Davies said that while Drakeford’s departure was “a welcome relief for wales and its people” things “are about to get 100 times worse” with his replacement.<\/p>\n

It comes as Express.co.uk was handed a dossier on the three top candidates to replace Drakeford – Vaughan Gething, Jeremy Miles and Eluned Morgan.<\/p>\n

While Gething has the most backing of elected representatives in Welsh Labour, Miles (like Drakeford) was a supporter of disgraced former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and could win on the popular and trade union vote.<\/p>\n

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Vaughan Gething<\/h3>\n

The dossier on Gething, 49, mostly takes aim at his record as Minister for the Economy and earlier role as Health Minister.<\/p>\n

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    It blames him for Welsh economic stagnation as England has grown.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Employment rate is lower in Wales than in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Because of his socialist policies Wales only has just one FTSE100 company – insurance company Admiral.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Welsh business pay the highest levels of business rates in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The dossier also notes that he was Health Minister during COVID-19 in Wales \u2013 but did not even bother reading a report into a pandemic simulation that he took part in prior to the pandemic, according to BBC Wales.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Wales is the only part of the UK not to have a Covid inquiry into its handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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