Plaid Cymru’s byelection victory signals a seismic shift in Welsh politics that will rattle Westminster

Rhun ap Iorwerth’s party seizes Senedd seat after Reform UK challenge

The governing party placed a distant third in a special election for a district of Wales it has dominated for a century. Plaid Cymru, a center-left...

Plaid Cymru and Reform UK have run fierce campaigns in Labour-run south Wales constituency

Labour’s electoral dominance in Caerphilly, deep in the party’s Welsh heartlands, has collapsed while Reform UK and Plaid Cymru have hoovered up...

The Welsh town’s byelection was a two-party race – but this time neither Labour nor the Conservatives were in it

Readers respond to Plaid Cymru’s victory in the recent Welsh byelection

On Tuesday 23 October, the good people of Caerphilly, Wales are voting in a by-election. Given that Welsh Labour’s polling is in the toilet, you’d...

Lindsay Whittle seized the Senedd constituency from Labour and resisted a fierce challenge from Reform UK

A local Caerphilly man has spelled out exactly why Reform fell to defeat in the local by-election in the Welsh town this week. Lindsay Whittle was...