First Minister Mark Drakeford has said the anti-lockdown protest outside his home earlier this summer was "frightening" and "alarming".
Around 150 people gathered on Saturday, July 24, outside Mr Drakeford's private Cardiff home a move which led to almost universal condemnation.
Anti-lockdown protesters gathered and chanted "arrest Mark Drakeford" and buses were diverted as the road was blocked. See our report of the protest here.
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Mr Drakeford told ITV: "The job I do, you expect people to express their views to you sometimes positive, sometimes not but there’s a place to do it, which is in the workplace – not at somebody’s home."
"My real objection to what happened was not about me. But where I happen to live – on one side of my house there are elderly people who live there, immediately on the other side of my house there are children under the age of five living there. They were all at home that day. They didn’t know what was going on. All they knew was there was a large crowd of people making a very significant amount of noise, which they found frightening and alarming.
"Now, it’s wrong, isn't it, for people who have nothing to do with that debate to be targeted in that way. Protest outside the Welsh Government building, protest outside the Senedd.
"There are public spaces where the right to protest – which is very important – can be properly exercised, without alarming and creating genuine fear amongst people who have no responsibility at all for the issues that people were protesting about."
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