A Lampeter town councillor has been chosen as the Labour candidate for Ceredigion at the next General Election.

Wales’ First Minister Mark Drakeford and Eluned Morgan, Labour’s Regional Assembly Member for mid and west Wales, have both congratulated Dinah Mulholland, who was reselected to stand as the Labour Party candidate before the party’s annual conference.

Cllr Mulholland won the overwhelming backing of local Labour Party members at the selection which took place in New Quay just before the annual UK Labour conference in Brighton.

At a meeting with members at the Black Lion Hotel in Cardigan, Mr Drakeford spoke of the impacts that austerity, Brexit and climate change were having on the economy and society more widely.

He said that the Welsh Government budget for next year was the same as that in 2010 and despite the Conservatives’ assertion: “Austerity was not over”. 

Cllr Mulholland said: “Labour is the only political party with the will and the capacity to combat climate change, to restore the damage to our public services caused by Conservative and Lib Dem austerity policies, and to unite our communities divided by Brexit.

“I’m honoured to have been selected to represent Labour in Ceredigion and to put forward our life-changing, life-saving and visionary policies in the next General Election.”

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