Senior Plaid Cymru politician Liz Saville Roberts has said that a new interim leader for the party should be in place by the weekend. She was speaking after Adam Price told party members he is quitting as leader days after a review found a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny in the party.
In his resignation letter, he said he no longer had the support of colleagues after the report was published last week. Ms Saville Roberts, who is the group leader of Plaid Cymru in the House of Commons, had last week backed him to stay on but admitted on Thursday (May 11) that a week is a "long time in politics".
"There were a number of us who felt, at the time of publishing the report, which is important to point out we put into the public domain, that we needed a collective leadership in a small party in order to bring about these important cultural changes," she tod BBC Radio Wales. "But a week is a long time in politics and it became clear that Adam himself was becoming a distraction and that if we wanted to move forward we needed a new leader."
