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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Eleanor Storey

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly by-election win leaves Labour with ‘very tough fight’

Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle (centre) makes a speech after being declared winner (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Wire)

Plaid Cymru’s victory in the Welsh Parliament by-election leaves Labour with a “very tough fight” on its hands ahead of the Senedd elections in May, a minister has conceded.

Labour trailed Reform UK in third after Nigel Farage’s party had pledged to “throw everything” at its campaign for the Caerphilly seat, which Labour had held since the Senedd was established in 1999.

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