The Latest Breaking News from Mark Drakeford

In a video posted in November last year, Pavlina Sudrich demonstrated how she kept warm in the Yukon's cold weather but a slip-of-the-tongue led to her being criticised by many of her Welsh followers.

The Welsh Government is set to ask the UK for powers over gender reform to be devolved.

Mark Drakeford and his wife married in 1977 and have three children

The Welsh Government has confirmed the sad news

CLARE Drakeford, the wife of the First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford, has died suddenly, the Welsh Government has announced.

A spokesman said thoughts were with Mark Drakeford and his family after his wife Clare’s death.

Clare Drakeford, the wife of Wales’s First Minister Mark Drakeford, has died suddenly, the Welsh Government has announced.

A spokesman said: "The thoughts of everyone in the Welsh Government are with the family at this time and we ask that their privacy is respected"

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has passed on his deepest condolences to the Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford

Rhun ap Iorwerth MS, Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson for health and care, says the Labour-led Welsh Government is failing to acknowledge the depth of the problems gripping Welsh health services

From calls for a second Scottish independence referendum and speculation about “indy-curiousity” in Wales, to the collapse of the power-sharing agreement in Northern Ireland, the state of the UK union has been the subject of much political discussion over the past decade.