Eluned Morgan ready to ‘call out’ UK Labour

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Eluned Morgan has made steps to distance herself and her Welsh Labour Party from the UK arm saying she is ready to ‘call out’ decisions that will affect Wales and will not ‘stay silent’. With one year to go until the next Senedd Election, Labour Party members will be concerned, given the poor showing at the recent local elections in England.

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00:00There's a year to go until the next Senate elections, and Wales' First Minister has sent a clear message to Westminster

00:08allowing not to stay silent if decisions made by the UK government harm Welsh communities.

00:13Ineid Morgan, the head of Labour in Wales, insists she'll challenge from within her own party if necessary,

00:19warning that the future of Wales is at stake. But opposition leaders in the Senate have continuously called Morgan out

00:25for not standing up for Wales when it comes to decisions made in Westminster.

00:29It follows a bruising set of local elections in England, where Labour lost hundreds of seats,

00:33including control of the only council it was defending for Nigel Farage's Reform UK.

00:38The party also failed to hold a parliamentary by-election, prompting questions over some of its policy decisions.

00:44Ineid Morgan is also due to challenge the UK Labour government on steel, having already called for Wales

00:49to receive a significant share of clean steel funding following investment in Scunthorpe,

00:54warning that Welsh jobs must not be sacrificed in the process.

00:58Plaid Cymru leader Trina Pjordworth has pointed out in the past that when poor Talbot Steelworks' future was in doubt,

01:04she called nationalisation a pipe dream, while when a similar situation arose in England,

01:09emergency legislation was passed as Parliament was recalled on a Saturday for the first time in years.

01:14Polling from Servation in April suggests the next Senate election could be tied to the level with Labour on 27%

01:21and both Plaid Cymru and Reform UK close behind on 24.

01:24That's a major drop from Labour's performance in 2021 when the party won nearly 40% of the vote.

01:29This will be Morgan's first Senate campaign as leader after taking over from Mark Drakeford last summer.

01:35She says she understands the weight of responsibility and that in her words, change was not only coming, it was needed.

01:41This is George Watkins, Border for Local TV.

01:44This is George Watkins, Border for Local TV.

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