{"id":931034,"date":"2026-05-01T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/931034\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:21:24","slug":"only-plaid-cymru-can-beat-reform-says-rhun-ap-iorwerth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/931034\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Plaid Cymru can beat Reform, says Rhun ap Iorwerth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of ap Iorwerth&#8217;s messaging is aimed at avoiding a controversial situation where Reform emerges as the largest party after the election, but is then prevented from forming the next Welsh government by the Senedd&#8217;s left-wing parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Labour first minister Mark Drakeford said recently that the left-wing parties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c04xnzvl27k\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would team up to block Reform<\/a> in the event it wins the largest number of seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform&#8217;s Welsh leader Dan Thomas has already warned of a potential post-election &#8220;stitch-up&#8221; to prevent his party from governing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about that, ap Iorwerth repeated: &#8220;We have to make sure that one party is bigger than Reform, that can only be Plaid Cymru. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s a compelling tactical message, but I want people to make a positive decision to vote Plaid Cymru too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of ap Iorwerth&#8217;s messaging is aimed at avoiding a controversial situation where Reform emerges as the largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-931034","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\/116500240375176957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931034","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=931034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}