Mark Drakeford has been criticised over a trip to Brussels during the Covid-19 pandemic (Image: Getty Images)

Mark Drakeford has been criticised in a major report about the way the UK's governments responded to Covid-19 . The former First Minister was absent at the first meeting of his cabinet where Covid was made a priority in the spring of 2020, something that has led to him being called out by the inquiry's chair.

Baroness Hallett has today published the latest report from the ongoing Covid-19 inquiry, focusing on the responses of all governments - the UK, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Executive.

Looking at how the pandemic was dealt with in the early days, the report found the devolved administrations "failed to escalate consideration of the emerging crisis to their hig

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