{"id":547373,"date":"2026-04-24T00:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:51:39","slug":"labours-eluned-morgan-urges-voters-to-help-her-keep-senedd-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547373\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour&#8217;s Eluned Morgan urges voters to help her keep Senedd seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The video features Morgan using canned cocktails to explain how Wales&#8217; voting system works &#8211; representing Labour with a pink can of strawberry daiquiri and the other parties with cans in their colours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plaid Cymru is represented by a mojito, the Conservatives by a raspberry daquiri, Reform by an espresso martini, the Greens by a pina colada, and the Lib Dems by an Irn-Bru vodka martini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the clip Morgan says a recent poll indicated she would win one of the six seats in her constituency, &#8220;but it won&#8217;t necessarily stay that way unless you come out and vote Labour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She adds that the &#8220;real danger is that if you don&#8217;t come out, you don&#8217;t support Labour you&#8217;re going to get another Reform person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A caption for the clip reads that a crucial seat up for grabs in the constituency &#8220;is on a knife edge and it could go to Labour or to Reform and the Tories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Plaid Cymru spokesperson said that &#8220;even Labour&#8217;s own leader in Wales has now acknowledged the reality on the ground&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said: &#8220;Labour are on their way out. This is the scale of the choice facing Wales: a hopeful, ambitious future under Plaid Cymru, or more chaos and decline under Reform UK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Welsh Conservative spokesperson said the &#8220;people of Wales have had enough&#8221; after 27 years of &#8220;Labour and Plaid&#8217;s failed policies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Only the Welsh Conservatives offer a credible plan that will fix our NHS, improve standards in our schools and fire up our economy to get Wales working,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Reform UK spokesperson said: &#8220;The only way to stop another Labour and Plaid coalition, and get real change for Wales, is to vote Reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new electoral system is being used to elect Wales&#8217; parliament, the Senedd, which is growing from 60 to 96 members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six members will be elected in 16 new constituencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can find a full list of candidates for Ceredigion Penfro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election\/2026\/wales\/constituencies\/W09000055\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video features Morgan using canned cocktails to explain how Wales&#8217; voting system works &#8211; representing Labour with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-547373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}