LABOUR’S electoral victories continued over the weekend, after the party’s Marvin Rees was elected mayor of Bristol with nearly double the votes of the incumbent mayor.
Jeremy Corbyn rushed to Bristol to celebrate the success of Mr Rees, who was said to be the first person of Afro-Caribbean descent to be directly elected mayor of a major European city.
Bristol — England’s fifth most affluent city — was once the country’s leading slave trade port.
On the 121st anniversary of communist Claudia Jones’s birth ROGER McKENZIE looks at political events that shaped her, and those she helped shape
Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales


