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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent

Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat

Eluned Morgan gestures with her hand as she speaks at a lectern on stage
The Welsh first minister and leader of Welsh Labour, Eluned Morgan, addresses party supporters in Newport last month. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena Pictures/The Guardian

Welsh Labour is the democratic world’s most successful election-winning machine, coming first in Wales in every general election since 1922 and every devolved election since 1999. Come next month’s Senedd election, however, this history-making run is expected to end.

Labour’s collapse has left a vacuum, and former Labour voters are going to opposite ends of the political spectrum. Plaid Cymru and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are neck and neck in the latest poll, although coalition maths make it highly unlikely Reform would be able to form a government.

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