{"id":30857,"date":"2025-06-12T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mark-drakeford-loses-temper-with-plaid-cymru-leader-over-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:58:58","slug":"mark-drakeford-loses-temper-with-plaid-cymru-leader-over-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mark-drakeford-loses-temper-with-plaid-cymru-leader-over-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Drakeford loses temper with Plaid Cymru leader over funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Would you like to listen to me?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">This is the moment finance minister Mark Drakeford lost his temper with Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth in the Senedd on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Members were discussing chancellor Rachel Reeves&#8217; spending review and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c14kdvzdjlgo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">its impact on Wales<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">As Drakeford explained the breakdown of \u00a3450m funding announced for Wales, he was heckled by ap Iorwerth, prompting him to snap back that the Plaid leader was &#8220;very bad at listening&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><i id=\"video-edited-by-erin-lister\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 fhKUCU\">Video edited by Erin Lister<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/clyg0xnxl7vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Would you like to listen to me?&#8221; This is the moment finance minister Mark Drakeford lost his temper with Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth in the Senedd on Wednesday. Members were discussing chancellor Rachel Reeves&#8217; spending review and its impact on Wales. As Drakeford explained the breakdown of \u00a3450m funding announced for Wales, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1084,10493,1013,2095,655,878,6009,10494],"class_list":["post-30857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-cymru","tag-drakeford","tag-funding","tag-leader","tag-loses","tag-mark","tag-plaid","tag-temper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30859,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions\/30859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}