🚨EXCL: Mark Drakeford, former Labour First Minister of Wales, calls on Keir Starmer to set a timetable to step down as Prime Minister and backs Andy Burnham In his first interview since Labour’s disastrous Welsh Parliament elections, he tells me: • The situation for the PM is “irrecoverable” • Suggests a contest could happen over the summer with a “new Prime Minister in place for September” • Supports Andy Burnham to become the next Labour leader and Prime Minister - and intends to campaign for him in Makerfield. • Believes “a strong majority of Welsh Labour members” will want to support Burnham • Says the level of hostility towards the Labour Party which he encountered in the Senedd election campaign was something he’d never experienced in over 50 years of campaigning • On Eluned Morgan, the former Labour First Minister, losing her seat: a “desperately sad moment” • Claims lack of further powers devolved to Wales by the Keir Starmer administration "cut the ground from under us” in Welsh Labour's Senedd campaign Part of our exchange here Full interview to follow in next post ⬇️🧵