The Daily Telegraph has published a long and detailed article to assess the leadership of Mark Drakeford. It is, as you might expect from a title that has published a series of opinion pieces criticising his policies, damning of the man who has stepped down as Wales’ First Minister.

The headline says the former social policy professor has shown “how to ruin a country” and concludes that the nation is “badly in need of a leader that can steer the country out of the slow lane”. It says he leaves an “insidious legacy” of pitting urban areas against rural ones, has failed to understand the importance of the tourism industry at a time manufacturing is in decline and left hospitals and schools in a pitiful state.

Throughout the piece it draws on many of the themes and criticisms WalesOnline has explored about Mark Drakeford’s five years in the driving (at 20mph) seat. It even quotes a very familiar headline that the former First Minister was the most loved and hated man in Wales (although it doesn’t credit us with the phrase), and draws on some of the character traits we’ve explored - not least his sensitivity to criticism.

But is it right, has the Cardiff West AM ruined Wales? Are we stuck in the slow lane? Or have the Telegraph’s writers missed something in their rush to rubbish the former First Minister?