Labour Loses Power in Wales Setback
- On Friday, Britain's Labour Party lost power in Wales for the first time since the devolved assembly's 1999 creation, as nationalist party Plaid Cymru secured the most seats in local elections.
- The Welsh Parliament was created 27 years ago under former Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, and this election marked the first time Wales used the closed proportional list system for voting.
- With all 96 seats declared, Plaid Cymru won 43, Reform secured 34, and Labour finished third with nine seats; the Welsh Conservatives hold seven, the Greens two, and one Liberal Democrat holds the final seat.
- No party reached the 49 seats required for a majority, forcing Plaid Cymru to pursue an alliance; Eluned Morgan announced she is standing down after calling the result a "catastrophic result."
- Facing losses in England and Scotland, Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted he is "not going to walk away," while Farage vowed the results showed a "truly historic shift in British politics.
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The Labour Party of the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has suffered a catastrophic defeat in the by-elections held Thursday in England, where it runs the right-wing populist Reform UK formation, and in the regional ones in Scotland and Wales, where nationalist forces are imposed.With all the votes cast to the Welsh Parliament ("Senedd"), the independence formation Plaid Cymru gains an unprecedented victory by winning 43 out of 96 seats, t…
For decades, Wales was considered to be Britain's impregnable red fortress. A bastion in which the Labour Party was able to switch and run as it wished. But this is now over. The Welsh have issued the receipt to the left arrogance, ideological patronage and total failure of the government. What happened in Wales is not only a bitter defeat for Labour – it is an ultimate humiliation for the Reds. From absolute dominance, the party falls to pitifu…
Labour loses power in Wales setback
Britain's Labour Party lost power Friday in Wales for the first time since its devolved assembly was created in 1999, as the nationalist Plaid Cymru won the most seats in local elections, the BBC reported. With all 96 seats declared, Plaid Cymru won 43 -- falling short of a majority -- while anti-immigration Reform UK were second with 34 leaving Labour trailing in third winning just nine seats. It represented a humiliating result in its traditio…
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