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‘Starmer’s referendum’: How local elections could expose a fractured UK

Wales than in Scotland, a stronger Plaid Cymru showing could still elevate questions about devolved powers

Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat

devolved nations for the first time – Plaid Cymru in the Senedd, the Scottish National party (SNP) in Holyrood and Sinn Féin in Stormont – would mean that whoever occupies No 10 Downing Street in the near

Tuesday briefing: After an historic shift in power, where might Plaid Cymru go next?

Plaid Cymru](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/plaid-cymru) has wasted no time in testing Keir Starmer’s “openness” to reform. In London, the party tabled an amendment to the king’s speech, calling for a number of justice

Political parties make final pitches ahead of key elections

devolved election in a row, keeping Labour and Reform UK at bay. Reform UK and Plaid Cymru are vying to be the biggest party in the Senedd, in Wales, where Labour's continuous streak

Mapped: the elections that could deliver ‘unprecedented’ losses for Labour

power for decades continuously. Labour Conservatives Lib Dem Reform Green Plaid Cymru SNP No overall control Other Note: For England, councils are coloured by the current party with a majority. For Wales and Scotland

Reform and Plaid likely to benefit from polarisation of Welsh politics

Wales, support for the Labour party has collapsed, with former voters seemingly [going to Plaid Cymru](https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wales/consolidation-not-conversion-understanding-waless-ongoing-realignment/) or, in lesser numbers, to Reform – opposite ends of the political spectrum. The two parties have

Starmer under pressure as Labour suffers heavy election losses including historic Wales defeat

power in Wales, ending its 27 year-long rule, while the SNP appears likely to remain the largest party in Scotland. Reform UK has been the big winner in England, picking up more than

Relish and dread as Starmer 'shambles' hangs over Scotland and Wales elections

power, and the most important people of all - the public who'll make the choice on 7 May. Just when Labour needs to be going hammer and tongs in a campaign, instead, almost every

Swinney keen to work with fellow nationalist devolved leaders in UK

devolved governments, and perhaps us all working in concert with a shared agenda might get us somewhere on that.” Swinney also cited the previous campaigns by the Scottish and Welsh Labour governments to lift

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party

Plaid Cymru, two to Reform and one to the Conservatives, making Morgan the first ever leader of a government in the UK to lose their seat while in office. She immediately resigned in a concession

Plaid Cymru tipped to be biggest party in Senedd, ending 100 years of Labour control

devolved politics in Wales and block the momentum of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. By early Friday evening, with 14 of 16 constituencies declared, the centre-left Welsh nationalist party appeared poised to win enough

UK elections – early results and takeaways; will Starmer have to resign?

devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales, are the United Kingdom’s most significant test of public opinion before the next general election, which is due in 2029. Here is a closer look at the results

In the UK, Muslim votes are treated as a problem to be managed

devolved elections, Labour’s vote also declined, but the picture was more complex. In Wales, Plaid Cymru emerged as the largest party for the first time since devolution, with Reform UK Wales finishing a strong