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Britain's ruling Labour Party suffered a heavy electoral defeat on Friday in Wales, a traditional stronghold, in a result that highlights the threat posed by the Reform UK party, as the government struggles to revive the economy and ease fears about immigration.
Ms Lucy Powell’s win is a message to Mr Starmer that the wider party is increasingly disillusioned with its approach on everything. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The governing party said it was “deeply concerning” that Nigel Farage’s appearance in the U.S. Congress had been brokered by an organization that helped topple Roe v. Wade.
In an area that Labour has represented for more than a century, the party was humiliated. Its vote collapsed from 46 per cent to 11 per cent as Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, took control.
SIR Keir Starmer suffered another major blow today as Plaid Cymru swept to victory in an historic Welsh by-election. Lindsay Whittle won the crucial Caerphilly Senedd seat off Labour in a huge
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 Welsh nationalist party, won.
The Labour Party had held this parliamentary seat for over a century - but tonight its candidate finished in third place.
Uncertainty has continued to trail the political platform the Labour Party (LP) former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will contest on in the 2027 election. Despite being part of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition,