Western Mail Comment: 'Canny' Ieuan Can Only Play the Big Card Once

Western Mail › March 09, 2009

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PLAID CYMRU'S week of internal feuding came to an end at the weekend, with the party's national executive committee stepping in line with leader Ieuan Wyn Jones on the issue of top-up fees.

But Mr Jones will have learnt some valuable lessons over the past week - not least of them that his party's grassroots does not like being taken for granted. And it will give him much to chew on as Plaid face up to possibly having to compromise on more controversial issues in the future.

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Western Mail Comment: 'Canny' Ieuan Can Only Play the Big Card Once

As it stands, this episode looks to have been ridden out. Plaid are now left in the position of opposing the intr...

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