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A political blogger from Cardiff has been expelled from the Labour Party for voting Tory – in an online Twitter poll.

Tomos Doran was told he was ineligible to remain a member of the party over a tweet in which he admitted to this.

He retweeted the poll and wrote: “I voted Conservative in this. Felt so wrong, even though it’s not a real election. But must be honest with myself.”

A month later, the 29 year old received a letter from the party saying.

It said: “It has been brought to our attention... that you have made comments on twitter on 18 March 2016 and you have publicly shown support for the Conservative Party on Twitter on 14 July 2016.”

Mr Doran said he sent the tweet because he was unhappy with the current leader Jeremy Corbyn.

He wrote: “Put it like this: to win, Labour needs to win over people who vote Tory. It’s now throwing people out for THINKING about voting Tory.”

Mr Doran said: “When I read the letter it was disbelief really. I had heard people had been kicked out but didn’t expect it to happen to me.

“I have been anti-Corbyn but so have a lot of people. I was holding out that the party would return to some sanity.

“I am still loyal Labour supporter but they obviously don’t want me. I have actually heard of people getting expelled for pro-Green tweets.

“I am pretty sure I have been kicked out because they said in the letter I was ineligible to remain a member.”

Mr Doran has not been able to find out what tweet from March the party were referring to.

“I haven’t been able to find out as I can only go back to early July on my feed.” said the political blogger.

“I have requested my archives from Twitter but haven’t received them yet.”

The Labour Party is currently in the middle of a leadership challenge with Pontypridd MP, Owen Smith, challenging Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

In a her June 30 report into antisemitism in the Labour Party , human right barrister, Shami Chakrabarti, called for an end to going back through members social media.

Her reported ended with the line: “I ask for a moratorium on the retrospective trawling of members’ social media accounts and past comments, so as to create the much needed atmosphere and opportunity for learning, positive consensus and progressive change.”

When asked for comment a Welsh Labour spokesman said: “We don’t comment on NEC decisions regarding individual members.”