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Baroness Eluned Morgan has announced she will step down as leader of Welsh Labour after her party suffered heavy defeats.

‘I take responsibility for the Labour result in Wales,’ she says.

Baroness Eluned Morgan, the First Minister of Wales, has lost her seat in the Senedd in a dire set of elections for Welsh Labour.

Lady Morgan losing her seat marks the first time a sitting Welsh leader has lost an election in the Welsh Parliament.

Labour has led Wales since the Senedd was first established as the National Assembly for Wales in 1999, and has been the largest party in the country for more than a century.

Lady Morgan’s departure comes amid a brutal day for the party across Wales and the UK.

She had been a member of the Senedd since 2016, became a minister in the Welsh government a year later and was the first woman to hold the role of First Minister in Wales.

She took over at a turbulent time in Welsh Labour, with former first minister Vaughan Gething lasting just five months in the role.

Reform UK has taken control of a second council from Labour, winning Thurrock in Essex, taking 28 of the first 32 seats to be declared.

Sir Ed Davey said the Liberal Democrats were ‘the only non-populist party left standing’ after making gains at the local elections.

The Lib Dems have taken Stockport and Portsmouth councils, which were previously under no overall control, and won a net 22 seats across the country.

The overall picture emerging from the local elections is one of significant gains for Reform UK at the expense of Labour and the Tories, which have suffered losses of 348 and 236 respectively.

Zack Polanski’s Greens have also made inroads in some Labour strongholds, winning the Hackney mayoralty and a net 51 seats overall.

But during a visit to Guildford, Surrey, where the Lib Dems hope to win control of the council, Sir Ed said his party were ‘the only non-extremists to have made gains’.

‘In areas like Surrey it’s clear the Conservatives are finished and it’s now between the Liberal Democrats and Reform,’ he said.

by Sophie Church, Political Reporter

The Green Party has seen its first ever mayor elected in Hackney as Zack Polanski’s party continues to eat into dwindling Labour support across the country.

Showing the depth of anger for Labour under Keir Starmer, Zoë Garbett was able to take the Hackney mayoralty for the Greens with 35,720 votes, leaving Labour incumbent Caroline Woodley with just 26,865.

Ms Garbett’s victory comes as yet another historic blow to Labour on a punishing local elections results day – with Sir Keir’s party holding the East-end mayoralty since the role was created in 2002.

In her speech, Ms Garbett said that the people of Hackney had ‘made it clear that they are desperate for an alternative to this failing Labour government’.

She added that Hackney voters ‘own Hackney’ and that ‘it’s time to take it back’.

The Labour leader of Barnsley’s council said it was ‘clear we are going to lose our majority to Reform’ as the results for the first six wards were announced.

Sir Stephen Houghton held on to his own seat, but said he was ‘gutted’ the party ‘weren’t able to get our local message through’.

He told the Press Association:

It was the national politics that dominated this election 100%. Reform have played that card, not talked about Barnsley in any way, shape or form. It was just about Keir Starmer and the Government.

We hoped our proud record in Barnsley would be able to block some of that, sadly, in too many cases, it’s not been the case.

Reform UK have taken Sunderland, the first council Nigel Farage’s party has won from Labour.

The Scottish Green Party have won their first constituency seat in the Scottish Parliament, with Lorna Slater defeating SNP minister Angus Robertson in Edinburgh Central.

The leader of Camden Council has lost his seat to the Green Party.

Richard Olszewski has led Camden Council since 2024. The borough takes in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Holborn and St Pancras seat.

The former council leader, who switched wards within Camden in an attempt to retain his place on the council, lost by 395 votes.

Labour is defending Camden Council, which it has run since 2010.

The Greens have won their first ever seat in the Welsh Parliament, with Anthony Slaughter winning one of six seats at Caerdydd Penarth.

Former transport secretary Louise Haigh has suggested Sir Keir Starmer should step down before the next general election.

Ms Haigh, who served in Sir Keir’s first cabinet, told ITV Sir Keir can’t lead the party into another vote unless ‘significant and urgent change is delivered’.

She told ITV Calendar:

He is doing an incredible job at the moment on the international stage in the middle of global instability and a war. And it is imperative that he is successful in that role because our constituents livelihoods are dependent upon it.

But I think what is abundantly clear, is that unless the government delivers significant and urgent change, then the prime minister cannot lead us into another election.