{"id":576325,"date":"2026-05-10T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:47:10","slug":"wales-election-2026-plaid-cymru-leader-urges-voters-to-hold-party-to-account-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576325\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales election 2026: Plaid Cymru leader urges voters to hold party to account"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reform challenged over ‘toxic culture’published at 11:12 BST<\/p>\n

11:12 BST<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of back and forth between Reform’s Llyr Powell and Teleri Glyn Jones around the party and toxicity, and that people voted for Plaid Cymru to stop Reform.<\/p>\n

Powell says: \u201cThere was a lot of misinformation out there during the
\ncampaign. What people will see from us here going forward is the strongest arm
\nof the party with the most elected representatives is here in Wales. <\/p>\n

“You\u2019re
\ngoing to see a lot more of the Welsh identity of the party showing through.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was disappointed in Plaid Cymru in running a campaign on stop
\nReform.\u201d<\/p>\n

She interrupts and challenges Powell, and says it was \u201ceffective\u201d. <\/p>\n

Jones says: \u201cYou\u2019ve got this toxic
\nbrand I would say. Yes 30% of the Welsh people voted for you but many people voted
\nagainst too. If you\u2019re serious in governing next time or governing in
\nWestminster, don\u2019t you have to deal with that?<\/p>\n

\"Llyr<\/p>\n

He says: \u201cTime will do that on it\u2019s own. The reason Plaid focused so much was that they could tell on the doors how strong Reform was. There\u2019s a lot more votes out there for us. Right now we\u2019ve got to build from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then takes him on controversial posts made by other Reform members on social media. \u201cThere\u2019s a branding issue here,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

He responds that “people were telling us we weren’t going to have any candidates” but that the party had more than 30 elected, that they “had no policies”, but “we provided a detailed manifesto for people to judge us on”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform challenged over ‘toxic culture’published at 11:12 BST 11:12 BST There’s a lot of back and forth between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-576325","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\/576325","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=576325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}