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Article: Plaid could give Labour a future in Wales; The apparent certainty of Labour's defeat in the general election may mark a new low in the party's electoral fortunes, but could also represent a fresh start for its relationship with Plaid Cymru, writes Adam Price: the wednesday essay.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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Byline: Adam Price
IT SHOULD be pretty clear by now to any objective observer that the Labour Party is a few months away from suffering the most humiliating electoral defeat since 1931.
With support now hovering in the low 20s, Gordon Brown is set to go down in history as the most unpopular Labour leader ever by returning fewer Labour MPs than even Michael Foot.
The broad left group Compass has even talked darkly of this being "The Last Labour Government" with Tory gerrymandering and Scottish independence tipping Labour into terminal decline.
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