What is Mark Drakeford?
[[File:Mark Drakeford (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Drakeford in 2017]] '''Mark Drakeford''' (born 19 September 1954) is a [[Labour Party (UK)|Welsh Labour]] politician. He has been [[First Minister of Wales]] and leader of the Welsh Labour Party from 2018 until 2024. He served as [[Welsh Government|Cabinet Secretary for Finance]] in the [[Carwyn Jones|Jones Government]] from 2016 to 2018, [[DExEU|Minister for Brexit]] from 2017 to 2018 and [[Welsh Government|Minister for Health and Social Services]] from 2013 to 2016. Drakeford has been a [[member of the Senedd]] for [[Cardiff West (Senedd Cymru constituency)|Cardiff West]] since 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://senedd.wales/en/memhome/Pages/MemberProfile.aspx?mid=253|title=Mark Drakeford MS|publisher=[[Senedd]]|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024202017/https://senedd.wales/en/memhome/Pages/MemberProfile.aspx?mid=253|url-status=dead}}</ref> Drakeford was born in [[Carmarthen]], [[Carmarthenshire]]. He married his wife Clare (''[[née]]'' Buckle) in [[Cambridge]] in 1977. The couple have three children. One of which is a sex offender who has been jailed several times for sex offences. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Drakeford, Mark}} [[Category:1954 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Labour Party (UK) people]] [[Category:Welsh politicians]] [[Category:People from Carmarthenshire]] [[Category:First Ministers of Wales]] {{bio-stub}}