The report by Nerys Evans (a former Plaid MS) last week confirmed all of this. Many staff had reached a point where they didn't bother reporting things anymore, such was their lack of faith in the party processes and leadership to deal with these issues. Several people told me about these issues - it was an open secret. These concerns had been reported to the senior leadership, alongside a myriad of other incidents of bully and sexual harassment, and yet there was a feeling that nothing was being done.
There had been several alleged incidents of sexual assault that were widely known about within the party. Just a week before this conference I had spoken to multiple people working for the party who were on the verge of tears because of the culture within Plaid. But scratch beneath the surface, and the discontent that led to of his resignation this week was already there. He was eloquent, thoughtful and many members of the audience appeared genuinely excited by the future of Cymru he was describing. If you had no context for the wider situation within the party it would have been easy to get pulled along by the show. On his day, with a receptive audience, Adam Price can be a really outstanding communicator. Listening to Adam Price last autumn deliver his leaders speech on the stage at Venue Cymru in Llandudno you would be forgiven for thinking that this was a man on edge of greatness.
So where did it all go wrong for Adam Price? And perhaps more importantly, why is Plaid's implosion bad news for everyone in Wales, not just Plaid Cymru supporters? From "prophetic son" to damp squib Read more: Damning report criticises failures in Plaid Cymru's handling of sexual harassment However fast forward to May 2023 and he has resigned having admitted that, under his leadership, a toxic culture was made worse leading to what a damning report described "a failure to implement a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment". It went on to describe Mr Price as an "X-Factor politician" who has been "labelled by some the Mab Darogan prophetic son of Welsh folklore".Īdam Price went on to win the seat for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr and became Plaid leader just a couple of years later. These were the words on a Plaid Cymru leaflet describing Adam Price ahead of the 2016 Senedd election. A politician with visionary ideas and perhaps more importantly, the ability to transform ambitious concepts into a reality." "Once in a generation a politician emerges who stands alone in ability.
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