{"id":950089,"date":"2026-05-10T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950089\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:49:15","slug":"welsh-labour-leader-says-senedd-election-result-catastrophic-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950089\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Labour leader says Senedd election result &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Good morning and welcome to back to our politics coverage after an historic Welsh election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Reaction and fallout is continuing after a century of Labour dominance in elections came to an end as ballot papers were counted on Friday. Rhun ap Iorwerth is set to become the first non-Labour First Minister of Wales after Plaid Cymru won the most seats in the Senedd election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He announced on Saturday that he plans to lead a minority government after his party won 43 seats &#8211; six seats short of a majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">We will bring you all the latest updates, images, reaction and analysis through the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning and welcome to back to our politics coverage after an historic Welsh election. Reaction and fallout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,127448,285,386,33595,173270,16,15,1764,42719],"class_list":{"0":"post-950089","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-plaid-cymru","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-reform-uk","13":"tag-senedd","14":"tag-senedd-election","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales","18":"tag-welsh-labour"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116549423615746795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950089","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=950089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}