ELUNED MORGAN’S INFLAMMATORY CONFERENCE COMMENTS
The First Minister’s comments comparing Plaid Cymru and Reform as “different poison, same bottle” in her Labour conference speech is sign of a government in panic, the Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has said.
During First Minister’s Questions today (Tuesday 30th September 2025), the Plaid Cymru leader challenged the First Minister over her comments over the weekend and said that Plaid Cymru are worlds apart from Reform’s mission to sow division and their wish to silence Wales’ voice.
Recent YouGov polling has revealed Labour’s support in the Senedd election has plunged to 14% - with 34% of voters who supported Labour in the 2024 General Election now choosing to support Plaid Cymru’s progressive and hopeful vision for Wales instead.
Plaid Cymru Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said the Labour First Minister had “fundamentally misread the mood of the nation” and had become “a weakened leader of a diminished party as a result”.
Mr ap Iorwerth said Labour were ‘playing catch up’ by copy and pasting Plaid Cymru’s calls for a wealth tax despite voting against the party’s calls only a week before, lauding Free School Meals which the First Minister herself voted against several times, and emulating Plaid Cymru’s calls for a sovereign wealth fund.
Speaking during First Minister’s Questions for the first time since Eluned Morgan’s comments over the weekend, Plaid Cymru leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth MS said:
“Nobody believes for a second that Plaid Cymru and Reform offer the same proposition. This is a First Minister and a party that are panicking.
“The First Minister used language quite frankly unbecoming of her office to describe her political opponents.
“Where we promote unity, Reform sow division.
“Where we advocate for Wales to stand on its own two feet, they flirt with the idea of direct control from Westminster, silencing Wales’s voice.
“Where we promise to protect our culture and language, they proudly say it’s not a priority.
“She has fundamentally misread the mood of the nation and became a weakened leader of a diminished party as a result.
“The writing is on the wall for Labour, but rather than take in what it says, the First Minister has decided to paint her own mural of mistruths and misleading tropes.
“If Plaid Cymru is so poisonous, why is the First Minister so happy to take all our ideas?”