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- Current Plaid Cymru MPs (As of April 2022 [update] )
- Staff reporter (2015). "Dwyfor Meirionnydd". BBC News. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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- ↑ Priddy, Sarah (7 January 2019). "Living former Members of the House of Commons" (PDF). House of Commons Library.
- ↑ Whip suspended. Edwards rejoined on 10 August 2022 and left again on 13 August 2022
