Plaid chairman stands down

Further adding to Plaid’s minor string of internal difficulties is the news that John Dixon, the party’s well respected chairman, is standing down after eight years in the post. Citing personal and business reasons for the decision, Dixon adds on his blog that there are some “significant political reasons” that have also prompted his resignation.

He states, “There are a number of ways in which I feel that the party has moved, or is moving, in a direction which I cannot support, but being a national office-holder has fettered my freedom to say so.”