Plaid Cymru MP defends efforts to keep leader Adam Price after damning review

Liz Saville Roberts, who leads the party’s Westminster group, said ‘effective leadership is always a matter of balancing conflicting demands’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

A senior Plaid Cymru figure has defended attempts by some in the party’s hierarchy to keep Adam Price in place as leader despite a damning review into the culture of the party, arguing that they did so because they believed stability was needed to bring about change.

Price announced his resignation as leader late on Wednesday – a week after a review said his party had failed to “detoxify” its culture and found evidence of misogyny, harassment and bullying.