‘A choice between Eluned Morgan or Nigel Farage’: Jo Stevens on Labour’s struggles in Wales

‘We do have a challenge on our hands,’ Jo Stevens admits. Photograph: Francesca Jones/The Guardian

It was too early for many people other than dog walkers to be enjoying Roath Park in leafy north Cardiff, but it was the first stop of three for Keir Starmer’s secretary of state for Wales, Jo Stevens.

After coffee with the Guardian on Thursday morning, Port Talbot beckoned for a meeting of the transition board that is helping the steelmaking town navigate the closure of Tata Steel’s blast furnaces – still a raw wound for many Welsh voters – and then it was on to Llandudno for the Welsh Labour conference.