Labour Facing Defeat in Wales as Reform and Plaid Cymru Surge

Labour faces a heavy defeat in the elections for the Welsh assembly, in what would be a historic loss for Keir Starmer’s governing party in a part of the country there they’ve come out on top for more than a century.

A surge from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the nationalist Plaid Cymru means Labour appear set to come third in elections for the parliament, known as the Senedd, after the party also conceded defeat in Scotland and lost swathes of councilors across England.