The Telegraph: The Wales loss is devastating for Labour’s political heritage

Just under a century ago, Aneurin Bevan was elected for the first time as the Labour MP for Ebbw Vale. Voters awarded him over 60 per cent of the vote – which, remarkably, was the lowest vote share of his parliamentary career.

A century on, the area he represented (now part of the Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni constituency) has elected six new members of the Welsh Parliament. None of them are Labour.

Plaid Cymru took the most votes and three of the seats in an area represented by one of the canonical figures of twentieth-century Labour history; Reform UK took the other three. Labour’s vote was down by three-quarters to little more than 10 per cent.

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