{"id":945599,"date":"2026-05-08T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945599\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:45:16","slug":"wales-election-2026-votes-to-be-counted-for-welsh-parliament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945599\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales election 2026: Votes to be counted for Welsh Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour has lost many working class voters – Carwyn Jonespublished at 08:31 BST<\/p>\n

08:31 BST<\/p>\n

\"carwynImage source, PA Media\/Ben Birchall<\/p>\n

Labour has put itself in a position where it is “no longer seen as the party of the working people”, believes Carwyn Jones.<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s overnight election coverage, the former first minister said: “We need to be far more radical, we need to be far more confident in the message that we’re getting across.<\/p>\n

“We’ve put ourselves in a position where we’re no longer seen as the party of the working people.”<\/p>\n

Jones, who was Labour first minister from 2009 to 2018, added: “It’s quite clear that a chunk of working class voters are not with us at the moment.”<\/p>\n

Asked on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a> early on Friday whether he backed calls for Sir Keir Starmer to stand down, he said: “I would caution people against thinking that
\nsimply changing a leader in London is the panacea, is the be-all and end-all.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it’s simply a question of ‘if Keir Starmer goes everything willl be fine’. It’s not that easy.”<\/p>\n

He added, however, that the message had to be more optimistic in Westminster and that a sense of direction was missing at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour has lost many working class voters – Carwyn Jonespublished at 08:31 BST 08:31 BST Image source, PA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-945599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537848159301655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945599","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=945599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}