BOTH Labour leaders used their speeches at the weekend’s Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno to attack both Reform UK and Plaid Cymru.

Wales First Minister Eluned Morgan and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer were clearly rattled by recent opinion polling showing Labour’s support for next year’s Senedd election plummeting to 18 per cent and into third place behind Plaid and Reform.

It showed Plaid Cymru on course for 35 seats in an enlarged Senedd of 96 members, with Reform set to win 30 seats and Welsh Labour 19 seats.

The poll also indicated that support from Labour is not going to Reform but instead to Plaid Cymru, with the nationalists on course to become the largest party.

Former Wales Rugby Union international Ken Owens introduced the First Minister, who entered the stage to Queen hit Don’t Stop Me Now. Ms Morgan said the song has become her top track “because I have no intention of being stopped — not now, not in May.”

The Welsh Labour leader said: “The next Senedd election will be a moment of reckoning. Reform is rising and Plaid are mobilising.”

Ms Morgan frequently invoked her latest phrase “the Red Welsh Way” but couldn’t decide if the threat to her government is coming from the left or right.

Despite already presiding over the NHS for the first 25 years of the century, the FM vowed that Welsh Labour would make the NHS “fit for the 21st century.”

Ms Morgan’s big pitch was to say that her government will use artificial intelligence to transform public services and improve the health service and care sector. She announced a new department for AI in her government and an investment of £2.5 million in the technology across Welsh public services.

And in a nod to Tory former prime minister John Major’s cones hotline, she promised 100,000 potholes would be filled before the election.

In a bizarre speech, the Prime Minister warned of the dangers of a “backroom stitch-up” between the Tories, Reform, and Plaid ahead of next year’s Senedd elections.

But Plaid Cymru immediately shut down the suggestion, saying the party leadership had categorically ruled out any deal with the Tories or Reform.

Sir Keir dubbed Baroness Morgan a “fierce champion” and “the best person to lead Wales into the future.”