First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks during the campaign launch at Newport Market in Wales. Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images Tredegar in south Wales is more than 150 miles from Tufnell Park in north London. Neil Kinnock – who led the Labour Party between 1983 and 1992 – was born in the former and now lives in the latter. Kinnock is one of the last living members of a generation of Labour politicians whose political identity is inextricably linked to the valleys of south Wales. His Tory critics called him the “Welsh windbag”. But they always knew where he came from. On a breezy spring day in early April, I met Kinnock for a drink at a pub close to his home. He spoke with a twinkle in his eye, peering through rimless glasses, and dressed in a handsome, deep-green tweed suit. Sat around a wooden table, lit up by hazy light from the fading spring day outside, I asked him about Wales. On 7 May, Kinnock’s home country faces a historic election.…