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THE TORIES’ Welsh election campaign has been dealt a humiliating setback after the party polled just seven votes in council election.
Tory candidate Nigel Godfrey polled just 0.8 per cent of the 833 votes cast at the by-election in Caerphilly’s Moriah ward on Thursday.
The total is three fewer than the number of eligible voters Mr Godfrey required to nominate him to stand in the election.
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
LUKE FLETCHER pours scorn on Labour’s betrayal of the Welsh steel industry, where the option of nationalisation was sneered at and dismissed – unlike at Scunthorpe where the government stepped in
“At local level, it’s different."
