Labour no longer best placed to stop Reform winning in Wales, says Plaid Cymru leader

Reform UK could surge in countryside where hated pylons being planned

Pylons could be a key issue in rural Wales ahead of the Senedd elections in May next year.

Labour no longer best placed to stop Reform winning in Wales, says Plaid Cymru leader

Labour’s “ship has sailed” as the party best able to stop Reform UK from winning next year’s Welsh elections, the leader of Plaid Cymru has claimed.Rhun ap Iorwerth – whose party has led in some polling ahead of next May’s Senedd election – told The i Paper that Plaid was now the main anti-Reform force in Wales.He also said that if Plaid won the election and showed it was a “good government” then it would give the people of Wales the “confidence…

Is this the end of Labour in Wales?

With Labour’s grip on Wales weakening, SC Cook examines the social and political forces behind its declining support and how new movements might shape the future. Keir Starmer meets the First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In his now ubiquitous folk song ‘Yma O Hyd’, Dafydd Iwan proclaims that in spite of ‘Maggie [Thatcher] and her crew,’ the people of Wales will be here until th…