A COUNCILLOR forced to quit over social media comments about the holocaust aimed at former Welsh secretary David Davies will return to a top job.

Sara Burch resigned her post as a Monmouthshire County Council cabinet member in August 2023 after criticising the county’s then Conservative MP, and another councillor, for holding a meeting to discuss land being considered for potential Gypsy, Traveller sites.

The Labour councillor for the rural Cantref ward, near Abergavenny, posted in August last year on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, it was “shameful” the meeting was being held before a formal council run consultation and highlighted the public meeting coincided with the international remembrance day of the Roma and Sinti holocaust.

She deleted the post and apologised but had accused Mr Davies, and independent councillor........

© South Wales Argus