Mark Drakeford said Prime Minister Boris Johnson could not escape responsibility for the failures outlined in Sue Gray’s report at the Downing Street blockade party, simply by apologizing.
A full report by government official Sue Gray was released on Wednesday, revealing a shocking picture of the drinking culture and unprofessional behavior at the heart of the UK government at the height of the pandemic. It has strongly criticized senior political and state leaders for the culture they cultivate on Downing Street.
You can read all the most shocking revelations from the report here.
Mark Drakeford said he was desperate to read the findings of Ms. Gray’s report. He spoke as he announced the final lifting of all legal restrictions on Covid in Wales. See our coverage of the latest Covid press conference here.
“I saw Sue Gray’s report,” he said. “In fact, the biggest reaction I have to this is really the feeling of despair. That things could get to a level where, right in the heart of the government, where all those decisions were made that had such an impact on other people’s lives that people behaved the way we did. Sue Gray’s report already contains all those rather grim details about the way people think it’s good to behave. “
Asked if he believed the prime minister’s apology was genuine (a survey by YouGov shows that the majority of the public doesn’t think so), Mr Drakeford added: “I don’t think the prime minister can escape responsibility just apologizing for it and said that when he entered a room where people were eating and drinking, they were sitting on each other’s lap and planning to spend the night there until the early hours that he didn’t realize it wasn’t in line with the rules he fears that I don’t find this credible and I don’t think many other people do it either. “
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