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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