Adam Price was long-regarded as a great hope for Plaid Cymru but departs amid a bullying scandal.
Adam Price said Plaid Cymru's "time has come" when he took over as leader four years ago.
A miner's son from the Amman Valley, Adam Price's politics were shaped by the long miners' strike of the mid-1980s. In 2016 he returned to frontline politics - this time in Cardiff Bay, still representing his home constituency. But at the snap general election of December 2019 the party found itself squeezed out of the Brexit-dominated debate, and though Plaid held on to its four seats in Westminster, its share of the vote fell back and it came a disappointing third in its main target seat of Ynys Môn.Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford and Adam Price signed a co-operation deal in late 2021
But the party slipped back into third place, losing its grip on the Rhondda seat held by Ms Wood, as it struggled to compete with the favourable response towards the Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford's leadership during the pandemic. And that's why in the run-up to last May's Welsh local elections Mr Price - by now a father of two young children - was able to claim his party was "making a difference", and had "snatched a moral victory from the mawing jaws of defeat".and criticism of the leadership's handling of the situation.
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