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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Steven Morris

Welsh elections a choice between culture and ignorance, Plaid leader says

Rhun ap Iorweth gestures with one hand as he gives a television interview
Rhun ap Iorweth giving a television interview at the Plaid Cymru conference on Friday. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena/The Guardian

The leader of Plaid Cymru has claimed the Welsh parliament elections in May will be a straight fight between his party and Reform UK, which he billed as a choice between “culture or ignorance, humanity or indifference”.

Speaking at the party’s biggest ever conference, Rhun ap Iorwerth, the clear favourite to be the next Welsh first minister, said the Gorton and Denton byelection showed Labour and the Tories were “slipping away”, and he promised Plaid had a radical plan to improve Wales’s fortunes.

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