and that you maybe didn t agree with labour s mark drakeford in wales, who did say you could only go to a pub if you had table service and if groups were six max. that nightclubs would have to close, that there would be no fans at live sporting events. is there a bit of you that says, actually, labour uk wide doesn t have to agree with labour in wales? and the other way around. but actually, i don t criticise mark drakeford one bit. i think one of the reasons labour did well in the last welsh senedd elections is because of mark s leadership in the pandemic. i think i did recognise that these were finely balanced judgment and difficult judgment calls. we never called for restrictions in england for christmas. we listened to what the scientists were saying and we listened to the mood music coming out of government, which was, we re going to do restrictions after christmas. so, at that point, i was saying, if you re going to do restrictions after christmas, let people know before so
and ultimately, vaccinating the world in order to live well with covid. and that s what i mean it s about having a plan to make sure we re not constantly doing the hokey cokey on restrictions. yeah. you said just before christmas that you were breathing a sigh of relief that christmas could continue as normal, which sounded to quite a few people like you like you thought the prime minister was right not to bring in yet further measures before christmas. and that you maybe didn t agree with labour s mark drakeford in wales, who did say you could only go to a pub if you had table service and if groups were six max, that nightclubs would have to close, that there would be no fans at live sporting events. is there a bit of you that says, actually, labour uk wide doesn t have to agree with labour in wales? and the other way around. but i, actually, i don t criticise mark drakeford one bit and i think one of the reasons labour did well in the last welsh senedd elections is because of mar
that s what i mean. it s about having a plan to make sure we re not constantly doing the hokey cokey on restrictions. you said just before christmas that you were breathing a sigh of relief that christmas could continue as normal, which sounded to quite a few people like you thought the prime minister was right not to bring in yet further measures before christmas. and that you maybe didn t agree with labour s mark drakeford in wales, who did say you could only go to a pub if you had table service and if groups were six max. that nightclubs would have to close, that there would be no fans at live sporting events. is there a bit of you that says, actually, labour uk wide doesn t have to agree with labour in wales? and the other way around. but actually, i don t criticise mark drakeford one bit. i think one of the reasons labour did well in the last welsh senedd elections is because of mark s leadership in the pandemic. i think i did recognise that these were finely balanced judgment a