Senedd members and former transport minister Lee Waters has warned his party could be in for a sorry surprise in the next senedd elections and fears they could not be the biggest party in the Senedd for the first time ever. He says his party needs to stand up for Wales, not the prime minister.
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00:00Politics has shifted massively in recent years, populism is on the rise across Europe, and
00:06parties like Reform have found a home in voters who feel they've been left out of the status
00:09quo. And if ever there was a country and political landscape that followed a status quo, Wales
00:15is that country.
00:17Welsh Labour have been the biggest party in the Senedd since it started way back in 1999,
00:21and has been the biggest party in Wales at general elections for close to a century.
00:26Nowhere in the world has there been a political juggernaut like Welsh Labour, but former Transport
00:31Minister Lee Waters fears that could soon come to an end.
00:34In his personal blog, he called out the First Minister, saying she is holding out a hand
00:38to the Prime Minister, rather than standing up for Wales, as he warns that there are grounds
00:43to say that Labour could come third in 2026.
00:46With a new, more proportional voting system in the Senedd for the next elections, and
00:50polls for now calling it a three-horse race between Labour, Plaid Cymru and Reform, the
00:54government will be growing concerned that the status quo could very likely be coming
00:58to an end.