THE new leader of the Labour Party will be known today bringing to an end one of the most high profile party leadership elections of recent times.

The winner from favourite Jeremy Corbyn, former ministers Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall is due to be announced at a special party conference from 11am on Saturday, September 12.

Left wing outsider Jeremy Corbyn was seen as a ’token’ candidate to appease party traditionalists when nominations for the race to succeed Ed Miliband opened in June.

But the north London MP, who is originally from Shropshire, has been credited with reinvigorating the party, attracting thousands to public meetings and new members and registered supporters to the party.

Following Mr Corbyn’s appearance at a meeting in Cardiff in August, Radnorshire based trade union activist and Brecon and Radnorshire Labour Party stalwart Ivan Monckton told us why he was supporting the Islington North MP.

Mr Monckton, of Evenjobb, near Presteigne, shared a stage with Mr Corbyn at a rally at a Cardiff hotel attended by nearly 1,000 people. He told the rally the giant Unite union, whose membership includes agricultural and allied workers, was backing the veteran left winger for the Labour leadership.

Mr Monckton told the rally, thought to be the largest organised mass political meeting in Wales since the 1984 miners strike, he was a ’humble trade unionist from Mid Wales’.

He said: "I’m proud to speak on behalf of Unite and immensely proud to speak in support of a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party, I one hundred per cent believe in, I can’t honestly say that has ever been the case before."

A member of the Brecon and Radnor Constituency Labour Party for around 35 years Mr Monckton said the Islington North MP, who has been dismissed as espousing out of date policies by his three leadership rivals, best represented union members.

He said: "Labour had a bad general election and we will have a difficult five years but Jeremy offers a clear alternative.

"Unite had a policy for a number of years to get more people like us into the House of Commons and for Labour to deliver the sort of policies we believe in.

"Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t look like and doesn’t sound like a typical politician and he doesn’t act like one. He’s one of us and that’s why thousands of people are flocking to his cause.

"I and Unite urge you to vote for Jeremy Corby for leader so we get Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister."

The Tuesday, August 11 rally was one of a series of well attended events across the country organised by the Corbyn campaign. Supporters in Cardiff had to stand or sit on the floor as every seat was taken.

Mr Corbyn outlined his opposition to the Conservative government’s austerity measures and what he said was the Labour Party’s failure to thoroughly challenge it.

He told the meeting: "If we forget what we exist for we exist for no purpose at all."

Mr Corbyn also told the meeting he had grown up ’just over the border’ in Shropshire and said the now scrapped Agricultural Wages Board had been ’vital to us’.

The board, which set minimum wages rates and terms and conditions for agricultural workers was scrapped in England by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government but its functions are retained in Wales. The Welsh Labour Government had fought the UK Government in court for the right to retain the powers.

Prime Minister David Cameron told The Brecon & Radnor Express, during his 2014 visit to the Royal Welsh Show, the board was ’outdated’.

Following the rally Mr Monckton dismissed Mr Corbyn’s critics within the Labour Party who claim it would be ’unelectable’ with a committed left wing leadership.

"That’s what the Blairite right wing are saying, but they just can’t stand the idea they are losing control of the party.

"I would say to them, first people said he couldn’t get on the ballot paper, he did. They said he had no chance but is now the front runner.

"If he can get his message across, as he did the other night, not just Labour people but the general public will see he is a perfectly decent bloke. There’s no flannel about him, most people have never come across a politician with no bull sh** about him.

"I’m convinced if he can keep the Labour Party together for the next six to 12 months, he has a really good chance of leading the Labour Party into government in five years time."

The Brecon and Radnor Constituency Labour Party nominated Yvette Cooper for leader and Stella Creasy for deputy leader.

Party members, registered supporters and members of affiliated trade unions had to rank their choices for leader and deputy leader in preference order. A list of who each constituency party is supporting was sent out with the ballot papers.