{"id":247173,"date":"2025-07-08T05:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247173\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T05:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:23:13","slug":"is-labour-losing-wales-to-reform-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247173\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Labour losing Wales to Reform? | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/electoral-dysfunction\/id1613562765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \ud83d\udc49 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Could Reform UK get their first taste of government next year? They&#8217;re the biggest party for Welsh voters, according to exclusive polling from More in Common ahead of the Senedd elections next year.<\/p>\n<p>But what does this mean for Labour? The party was founded in Wales and since devolution in 1999, they&#8217;ve run the government there. Are they now scared of Reform?<\/p>\n<p>So in this extra episode of Electoral Dysfunction, Beth meets Wales&#8217;s first female First Minister &#8211; Labour&#8217;s Eluned Morgan. She&#8217;s also been taking the temperature with a group of Welsh voters.<\/p>\n<p>They talk about the &#8220;Farage surge&#8221; in Wales ahead of the Senedd elections next May as Baronness Morgan admits the threat from Reform is &#8220;very serious&#8221; and that Labour have got &#8220;a lot of work to do&#8221; to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8211; the first minister attempts to swerve rating the Keir Starmer&#8217;s first year&#8230; but Beth&#8217;s not letting her get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you can also watch us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLG8IrydigQffkV94y_hhSFgZC-lgZ5rod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLG8IrydigQffkV94y_hhSFgZC-lgZ5rod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc49 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48 Could Reform UK get their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-247173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114815946340994372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}