Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Vaughan Gething

Mark Drakeford: a steady operator thrust into the spotlight by Covid

Wales’s departing first minister won admiration in the crisis but problems in health and education blighted his record

The Guardian - UK

Mark Drakeford to step down as Wales first minister

Among favourites to take reins of Labour administration are ministers Vaughan Gething and Jeremy Miles

The Guardian - UK

Welsh Labour’s Vaughan Gething: ‘It’s not about being black, it’s about being good at what you do’

First black minister in devolved administration and only black Senedd member wants party ‘that reflects Britain as it is today’

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Job cut fears as Port Talbot state aid deal announced; company insolvencies jump 19% – as it happened

Unions fear that jobs will be lost through £500m green steel subsidy deal with Tata which has been announced today

The Guardian - UK

Welsh Government hits back at minister’s claim over semiconductor sector

Paul Scully, who leads the government’s digital economy strategy, said he did not want to ‘recreate Taiwan in south Wales’.

The Independent UK

Huge £27m written off by 'embarrassing' Welsh Government flagship investment fund

The Wales Life Sciences Investment Fund pumped £50m into fledgling businesses, some of which failed to deliver on their promise

Wales Online

Vaughan Gething says it's 'unfair' to expect him to have read pandemic preparation paperwork when he was health minister

He has been widely criticised for his recent performance at the UK Covid Inquiry

Wales Online

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Mark Drakeford just tried to defend Vaughan Gething and what he said doesn't stack up

The First Minister was quizzed in the Senedd about the former health minister's admission at the Covid Inquiry that he hadn't read a key paper into how prepared the UK was for a pandemic

Wales Online

'The Welsh Government has a duty not to shy away from scrutiny' | Rhun ap Iorwerth

The leader of Plaid Cymru writes for WalesOnline to argue that the evidence of Vaughan Gething and Mark Drakeford at the UK Covid Inquiry shows clearly why Wales needs its own Covid inquiry

Wales Online

Vaughan Gething admits he never read major report into how ready UK was for pandemic before Covid

"If I had read that, I think that I almost certainly would have asked more questions and asked for more assurance about what was happening."

Wales Online

Wales ‘not as prepared as it could have been’ for pandemic, says Mark Drakeford

The First Minister gave evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday afternoon.

The Independent UK

Watch live: Mark Drakeford gives evidence to Covid-19 inquiry

Watch live as Mark Drakeford gives evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry on Tuesday, 4 July.

The Independent UK

A decade of suffering and failure - the Welsh health board no-one wants to take responsibility for

Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board remains in special measures and incidents there have included an 'unnecessary amputation'

Wales Online

Emotion, poetry and song as Cardiff Bay marks 75th anniversary of Windrush

Friends, family, Windrush elders and other figures gathered for the historic celebration on Thursday

Wales Online

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Birmingham Post

The rise of employee-owned business in Wales

The Welsh Government has a target of seeing a doubling in the number of employee-owned firms in Wales in this Senedd term.

Birmingham Post

Welsh Government unable to deliver scale of investment needed to decarbonise Tata

Tata Steel has asked for £1.5bn in government financial aid for it to decarbonise its plant in Port Talbot

Birmingham Post

UK Government semiconductor strategy risks "falling short" says Wales Economy Minister

The UK Government's long-awaited national semiconductor strategy offers up to £1bn to chip firms over the next decade

Wales Online

400 job mini-nuclear plant proposal at Trawsfynydd site takes step forward

Cwmni Egino, which is the company behind a proposal to develop the former nuclear power station in Trawsfynydd, has said it has completed its first phase of development work

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Birmingham Post

Welsh Government partners with Innovate UK to boost economy in Wales

The partnership with Westminster's innovation agency is the first to be agreed with a devolved government

Wales Online

Welsh Government claim there are '1,000 imminent job losses across Welsh universities and businesses' as a 'direct result' of the Westminster choices

Vaughan Gething has just launched a scathing attack on the UK Government

Wales Online

Pressure on Mark Drakeford grows over his 'not true' statement to the Senedd

It has emerged that the Auditor General wrote to the Welsh Government three years ago to ask ministers to stop claiming he had advised them over the Betsi Cadwaladr health board

Birmingham Post

Tech firm SPTS to create 200 new jobs as part of new £81m HQ in Newport

The firm is currently building a new 200,000 sq ft facility in Newport's Celtic Lakes

Wales Online

Two areas of Wales named as freeports with tax breaks to create jobs

The UK and Welsh governments said the two freeports have the potential to create 20,000 jobs by 2030

Birmingham Post

Wales is not getting one but two freeports

They promise to create 20,000 new jobs by 2030 mainly in the renewable energy sector

Wales Online

Flagship community bank pledge from the Welsh Government delayed

The community bank has supposed to launch this year

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.