{"id":236377,"date":"2025-10-24T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236377\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:15:08","slug":"caerphilly-by-election-won-by-plaid-cymru-as-labour-loses-seat-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236377\/","title":{"rendered":"Caerphilly by-election won by Plaid Cymru as Labour loses seat for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform councillor &#8216;pretty positive&#8217;published at 00:46 BST 24 October<\/p>\n<p>00:46 BST 24 October<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Mark Palmer<br \/>Assistant editor, BBC Wales<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform UK\u2019s<br \/>\nJason O&#8217;Connell says he\u2019s feeling \u201cpretty positive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O\u2019Connell is<br \/>\na county councillor in Torfaen and was one of the party\u2019s first councillors in<br \/>\nWales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know we<br \/>\nare in a tight battle, there is a lot of excitement down there and we are<br \/>\noptimistic about a good result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said<br \/>\npeople were coming to Reform because &#8220;nothing has changed and that\u2019s what<br \/>\npeople are frustrated with&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It doesn\u2019t<br \/>\nmatter who they vote for, if they vote for Plaid or Labour or anybody else.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the frustration of the people that we talk to, the outcomes do not<br \/>\nchange,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That\u2019s the gap that Reform are filling now &#8211; we<br \/>\nare the change candidate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform councillor &#8216;pretty positive&#8217;published at 00:46 BST 24 October 00:46 BST 24 October Mark PalmerAssistant editor, BBC Wales&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-236377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}