News about Carwyn Jones

This afternoon, Labour leader Ed Miliband delivered an emotional farewell address in the Senedd, ahead of resigning to the King tonight. Mr Drakeford revealed that he would have to stand down late last year and that Vaughan Gething would take his place. Clare, his wife of 46 years, died suddenly at the age of 71, dealing with personal tragedy last year.

Today, Mark Drakeford resigned as Wales' First Minister. In a tweeting this morning, Labour politician Ed Miliband fired the start gun on a bid to replace him. 'I said I would stand down during the new Senedd term when I stood for election as Leader of Welsh Labour,' he said.' It's now,'t.' It has been a privilege to serve as the party's leader. We have accomplished a lot in the last five years in some of the worst times we have ever known.'

Mr Drakeford said he wants to step down as a member of the Senedd, where he currently represents the Cardiff West constituency in parliament later this decade. Mr Drakeford, who spoke at the National Eisteddfod in Boduan, north west Wales, said it was "important to have a refresher." The Welsh First Minister said, 'I think it's impossible for those who will be doing the job in the future to have people like me sitting behind them.'

RICHARD EDEN: The extraordinary event is chronicled in a new book called Charles: The King and Wales, in which the author, Huw Thomas, discusses the possibility that Charles might have seen him as Prince of Wales (left), being filmed at the wheel of his Aston Martin, was filmed around the globe. As the Severn Bridge (top right) - officially, the Second Severn Crossing, which Charles had opened in 1996, was re-named Prince of Wales Bridge in 2018, honoring 60 years since the Queen made him the Prince of Wales. Officials at Clarence House were 'up for it,' according to Thomas, Business Correspondent for BBC Wales, who claims that Charles would have been filmed crossing from England to Wales.

Today, family members and politicians of the Welsh First Minister attended his wife's funeral. On Thursday morning, they attended Wenallt Chapel in Thornhill Crematorium, Cardiff, to pay their respects to Mark Drakeford's wife Clare, who died suddenly last month at the age of 71. Among those to pay their respects to Elin Jones, Plaid Cymru's chief, Welsh Conservative MP Andrew RT Davies, and Welsh Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds, are among those to pay their respects to the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Carwyn Jones, the former first minister, was present in the hall alongside a number of front-bench Labour MPs and Senedd cabinet ministers, including Jane Hutt, Vaughan Gething, and Jeremy Miles, as well as Senedd Manon Antoniazzi's chief executive.