The Welsh Elections – Why defeat could be “the Ghost of Labour’s Future”

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. A double-header on what you need to know about this week’s national elections: In Wales Labour could face an historic annihilation that will reverberate through the whole country. Should they blame Starmer or their own poor government? Will Plaid Cymru have to choose between the Greens and what’s left of Labour as coalition partners? And how in hell are English nationalists polling so well, even though their last leader is in prison for taking bribes to make pro-Russian speeches? Which way will Wales swing? Journalist Will Hayward, the go-to voice on Welsh politics, joins Andrew Harrison to make sense of it all. • Follow Will’s must-read Substack on Welsh politics here • Back us on Patreon – www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: James Liddell. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.0	Week from Hell before long. In England, there are local elections with more than 5,000 seats up for grabs and the party's expecting a wipeout, and there are the national elections for devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales. And I'm holding my hand up here. We haven't done nearly enough on either of those elections on the pods, largely because we are based in London and we don't have a network of correspondence. So today, we're doing something about it. Just like when the Manic Street
1:32.4	Preachers released two singles on the same day, we're releasing two bunkers today. Two Idiot's
1:37.6	guides to the elections, issues and balance of power in Scotland and Wales, and by idiot, I mean me.
1:43.4	On this edition, Wales, where it seems
1:45.8	that history could genuinely be made before our eyes. The Senate is up for grabs and Labour's
1:51.0	domination over Wales seems certain to end. The party has won every Senate election since
1:55.4	the Parliament was created in 1999. It's come first in Wales in every general election since
2:00.4	1922. But this week, the nationalists
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