by David Nicholson

SOCIALIST Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford has exclusively told the Morning Star that he has started talks to remove centralised party control over members in Wales.

In an interview for the Star to be published on Monday, the Jeremy Corbyn-supporting First Minister of Wales was asked about the authoritarian approach towards activists the Westminster party has taken under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer and general secretary David Evans.

He said: “I had a good conversation with David at last week’s party conference in Brighton about how devolution inside the party needs to catch-up with devolution at governmental level.