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SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES: Welsh Labour Party MP Beth Winter (right) with General secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, Mark Serwotka and Labour MP for Liverpool, Riverside Kim Johnson, join union members of the on the picket line outside the office of HM Treasury, in Westminster last year
FORMER Labour MP Beth Winter resigned from the party today with an excoriating attack on its values and policies under leader Sir Keir Starmer.
The socialist MP represented Cynon Valley after the 2019 general election and paid tribute to expelled Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for the radical manifesto she was elected on.
She said: “It has been the greatest honour of my life to serve as the MP for my home, Cynon Valley, elected on the transformative Labour manifesto of 2019.
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
by David Nicholson, Wales reporter
David Nicholson spoke to BETH WINTER about her bid to become a Senedd member as an independent running on a community grassroots campaign
Plaid Cymru’s Caerffili by-election win raised hopes on the left — but the complex realities of Wales suggest the Senedd election may be far less predictable, argues CATRIN ASHTON