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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Steven Morris

SHOCKING: Caerphilly byelection could signal fundamental realignment of welsh politics - What They Never Told You

The Reform campaign office on Cardiff Road in Caerphilly, Wales.
The Reform campaign office on Cardiff Road in Caerphilly, Wales. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

When he steps out of the byelection campaign office opposite Caerphilly castle, the Plaid Cymru candidate, Lindsay Whittle, tends to hear a couple of different cries from passing motorists.

“Some of them shout: ‘Good luck Linds!’ I love that,” Whittle said. “It implies we’re old friends even though I may not know them personally.” Others are rather less positive. “They yell: ‘Stop the boats!’ You hear that all the time.

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