Another Labour problemette
My favourite bit:
How does he know? He has only just been told about it!
Independent MP and AM Peter Law was offered a peerage not to stand against Labour in Blaenau Gwent at the last general election, his widow alleges. The ex-Labour politician, who died this week, was asked not to stand by a senior Labour figure, Mrs Law said.
Mr Law overturned a 19,000 majority to win Blaenau Gwent, Labour's safest Welsh seat at Westminster, last May. He had been Blaenau Gwent's Labour MP since the first Welsh assembly elections in 1999, but fell out with his party over its decision to select a parliamentary candidate for the south Wales valleys constituency from an all-woman shortlist. Mr Law was expelled from Labour after his decision to stand for the seat as an Independent.
Mr Law overturned a 19,000 majority to win Blaenau Gwent, Labour's safest Welsh seat at Westminster, last May. He had been Blaenau Gwent's Labour MP since the first Welsh assembly elections in 1999, but fell out with his party over its decision to select a parliamentary candidate for the south Wales valleys constituency from an all-woman shortlist. Mr Law was expelled from Labour after his decision to stand for the seat as an Independent.
"It's categorically not true. It did not happen." said a Labour Party spokesman.
