{"id":585446,"date":"2026-05-15T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:31:11","slug":"plaid-cymrus-rhun-ap-iorwerth-spent-election-night-at-premier-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585446\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth spent election night at Premier Inn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday’s historic vote saw Plaid win 43 seats and Reform UK come second with 34, pushing Labour into third with just nine seats in the expanded 96-member Senedd – ending a century-long run of election success in Wales.<\/a><\/p>\n

No overnight counting of votes meant it wasn’t until Friday evening that the result, which saw Plaid become Wales’ largest party, was confirmed.<\/p>\n

Ap Iorwerth, who also represents the constituency of Bangor Conwy Mon in north Wales, lives on the island of Anglesey with his wife, Llinos<\/a>, with whom he has three grown up children.<\/p>\n

But, like many Senedd politicians, he also has a property in Cardiff for the days he is working at the parliament, and now at the Welsh government’s headquarters in the city.<\/p>\n

While the UK prime minister has Downing Street, and the first minister of Scotland has Bute House in Edinburgh, there is no official residence for the first minister of Wales.<\/p>\n

A lack of an official residence for Welsh first ministers was questioned following protests outside former Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford’s Cardiff home.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Thursday’s historic vote saw Plaid win 43 seats and Reform UK come second with 34, pushing Labour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585446","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\/585446","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=585446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}