SUPPORTERS of local MP Jonathan Edwards has dismissed Labour claims he tweeted that Plaid Cymru is hoping to do a deal with the Conservatives should the 2015 General Election result in a hung parliament.

The tweet followed the suggestion at a Welsh Grand Committee by shadow Welsh secretary Owen Smith MP that a post-2015 Labour government would seek to over - turn Tory plans to allow failed Assembly candidates to be elected through the back door.

Mr Edwards tweeted: “In committing to re-gerrymandering the electoral system, Labour have just run out of partners in the inevitable hung parliament after 2015.”

His comment was seized upon by Mary Wimbury, Welsh Labour’s Aberconwy candidate for the General Election, who claimed it showed Plaid plans to back the Conservatives.

She said: “This will not go down well with people in Wales, struggling to get by in the face of an uncaring Tory government putting tax cuts for millionaires before helping hardworking families, who are battling every month to try and make ends meet.

“Plaid refused to rule out a back - room deal with the Tories in 2010, and after today’s outburst the people of Wales can be under no illu - sion that if they vote Plaid in 2015 they’ll get Tory.”

But a spokesman for Mr Edwards described Ms Wimbury’s comments as “the worst case of spin I have ever seen”.

He added: “Labour’s candidate from the north talks of families struggling to make ends meet each month, but fails to say that her party leader, Ed Miliband has publicly committed to follow the Tory spending plans after 2015,” he said.

“Lock, stock and barrel, the red Tories support the blue-Tory cuts.

“Since the economic crash in 2008, Plaid Cymru has consistently said that the key to recovery is investment in infrastructure in order to generate jobs and growth in vital areas such as health, education and transport.

“Labour, meanwhile, is more concerned with its plans to cap pensions, cut winter fuel allow - ance and continue with the bedroom tax.

“Mr Edwards is the most vociferous critic of the Westminster government.

“This is nothing more than a dismal attempt by Labour to mislead the electorate into thinking it offers something different to the Tories - it doesn’t.”