Former candidate for Chingford has already said she will challenge Labour’s decision to block herSign up for our Election Edition newsletterPlaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has said Keir Starmer wants to “act as the puppet master within all of the Labour party” through his “parachuting of candidates last minute to Wales”.He told Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips programme that his party would support a no-confidence motion in Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething next week. Plaid Cymru ended its cooperation agreement with the Labour-led government in Wales last month.We have no confidence in the first minister. More importantly than that, the Welsh public don’t have confidence in him. But it’s Labour who will decide – Labour members of the Senedd in that vote of no confidence, but crucially also Keir Starmer, who has shown through his parachuting of candidates last minute to Wales that he very much wants to act as the puppet master within all of the Labour party. Continue reading…
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Author : Yohannes Lowe
Publish date : 2024-06-02 11:44:31
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