:00:00. > :00:00.few days. That's all from the BBC News at 6.
:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to Wales Today and a special election programme live
:00:08. > :00:13.Labour celebrates - remaining by far the largest party.
:00:14. > :00:17.They fail to win a majority but there's no talk yet
:00:18. > :00:33.People look to us to form a government, as the largest party. We
:00:34. > :00:38.have to do that fairly quickly. We have a steel crisis to deal with.
:00:39. > :00:39.The last thing Wales wants is a period of uncertainty for many
:00:40. > :00:42.weeks. History is made - there's
:00:43. > :00:55.a new party in the Senedd - We will not do deals with any of the
:00:56. > :00:58.other parties just to occupy offices in government. We will take a view
:00:59. > :01:01.on every individual issue. Their leader Leanne Wood
:01:02. > :01:05.wins Rhondda from They are now the second largest
:01:06. > :01:10.party, but fail to make big breakthroughs elsewhere
:01:11. > :01:13.And for the Liberal Democrats, Kirsty Williams is now their only
:01:14. > :01:15.Assembly member but tonight Welcome to a special Wales Today
:01:16. > :01:38.live from the Senedd in Cardiff Bay. Labour has been celebrating victory
:01:39. > :01:41.in the Assembly election - defying many pre-election
:01:42. > :01:45.predications to finish on 29 seats, down just one
:01:46. > :01:50.on their total five years ago. History was also made with UKIP
:01:51. > :01:55.returning their first AMs. Let's take a look at the results
:01:56. > :01:59.in more detail. Despite a big drop in their total
:02:00. > :02:03.support, Labour led by Carwyn Jones The big shock of the night -
:02:04. > :02:11.and the only constituency to change hands saw Plaid Cymru leader
:02:12. > :02:15.Leanne Wood defeat former Labour Minister Leighton Andrews in
:02:16. > :02:18.Rhondda. Her party is now the second largest
:02:19. > :02:21.in the Assembly but failed to make For the first time in Assembly
:02:22. > :02:27.elections, the Conservatives, lead by Andrew RT Davies have won
:02:28. > :02:31.fewer seats than in The seven UKIP AMs, including leader
:02:32. > :02:38.Nathan Gill, have all come And the Liberal Democrats now
:02:39. > :02:42.have just one member. Kirsty Williams won her seat
:02:43. > :02:44.in Brecon and Radnorshire with an increased majority but has
:02:45. > :02:47.announced her resignation as leader Over the course of the next hour,
:02:48. > :02:59.we will have full reaction and analysis of the results
:03:00. > :03:01.and what it means for each First, our political editor
:03:02. > :03:21.Nick Servini with the story A long night and mixed fortunes. At
:03:22. > :03:29.counts across Wales, moments of tension, relief, and jubilation.
:03:30. > :03:32.Carwyn Jones was all smiles when he met his troops in the top
:03:33. > :03:37.conservative target seat of Cardiff North where Labour comfortably
:03:38. > :03:43.prevailed. In fact, Labour successfully defended every single
:03:44. > :03:48.marginal seat where it was up against the Tories. But Labour still
:03:49. > :03:50.doesn't have an overall majority so the First Minister struck a
:03:51. > :03:56.conciliatory tone but he was also clear that Labour would govern
:03:57. > :04:02.alone. For the time being at least. Looking busy Kirsty Williams to see
:04:03. > :04:08.what there is of Plaid Cymru. Very early days yet. But people will opt
:04:09. > :04:11.to us to form a government, as the largest party, we have to do that
:04:12. > :04:15.fairly quickly, we have a steel crisis that has to be dealt with and
:04:16. > :04:19.Wales does not want period of uncertainty for many weeks. The
:04:20. > :04:24.drinks were flowing for Ukip and a most famous couple Neil and
:04:25. > :04:31.Christine Hamilton, here celebrating Neil's election is one of several
:04:32. > :04:36.Ukip AMs. The pledge is to be in opposition with teeth. I've never
:04:37. > :04:41.actually been inside the building so it will be a learning curve. We will
:04:42. > :04:48.hold the balance of power in the assembly. We don't know whether
:04:49. > :04:53.Plaid will do a squalid deal with Labour, they have done it before and
:04:54. > :04:57.no doubt they will do it again. But we will not do deals with any of the
:04:58. > :05:04.other parties just to occupy offices in government. We don't know if this
:05:05. > :05:08.was the former Labour minister conceding defeat but it came before
:05:09. > :05:13.the most about it moment of the night, when the Plaid leader Leanne
:05:14. > :05:18.Wood easily took the Rhondda for the first time on a 25% swing. Plaid
:05:19. > :05:23.performed well across the valleys are providing a major scare for
:05:24. > :05:28.Labour in Gwent. Whittling down a majority of more than 9000 to around
:05:29. > :05:33.600. But it failed to capture a number of target seats. It is a bit
:05:34. > :05:37.tricky for Plaid because they came close in a number of seats but
:05:38. > :05:42.Rhondda was their only game. It raises questions as to how effective
:05:43. > :05:47.their ground operation is if they are coming so close but not getting
:05:48. > :05:51.the vote on the day. The Conservatives failed to capitalise
:05:52. > :05:57.on the momentum generalised -- momentum generated in the election
:05:58. > :06:00.last year. Of course it is disappointing when you fail to win
:06:01. > :06:04.seats that you have one at a general election, of course it is. But you
:06:05. > :06:08.mustn't underestimate what we have achieved when you look at the
:06:09. > :06:11.reduction in the majority on a bed of Clywd where we had a very
:06:12. > :06:17.hard-working candidate, Sam Robbins, to get the majority down from over
:06:18. > :06:25.over several hundred, that is a phenomenal achievement. The Liberal
:06:26. > :06:30.Democrats were wiped out a partner Kirsty Williams Radnorshire. She
:06:31. > :06:35.slid down as the leader in Wales as she stood to be the only Liberal
:06:36. > :06:41.Democrats at the assembly. Is this results below point for the party in
:06:42. > :06:44.Wales? I believe so. We had a fantastic result in Brecon and
:06:45. > :06:50.Radnorshire, one that nobody could have predicted. That will take
:06:51. > :06:54.longer than 12 months from the worst of a general election but we will do
:06:55. > :06:58.it ward by Ward, seat by seat but it will take time. Other than the
:06:59. > :07:03.arrival of Ukip, there wasn't much change in the political make-up. The
:07:04. > :07:05.biggest change will be the new faces, with 22 becoming AMs for the
:07:06. > :07:08.first time. So how does the political map
:07:09. > :07:10.of Wales look tonight? Our man who can answer that and more
:07:11. > :07:24.is Arwyn Jones. After those hundreds of candidates
:07:25. > :07:28.walked, thousands of miles between them, all wanting to end up here in
:07:29. > :07:32.Cardiff Way, how has it changed the political map of Wales were to mark
:07:33. > :07:36.let's show you the assembly constituency. When we look at the
:07:37. > :07:42.constituencies, variable is the tree. Once the changing hands. This
:07:43. > :07:46.little blob of yellow there. That is Plaid Cymru held in the middle of
:07:47. > :07:49.the red ocean of Labour constituencies around it. And
:07:50. > :07:54.elsewhere, it is very much as you were. We have been hearing that
:07:55. > :07:58.seats have been changing hands. We're not looking at the 40
:07:59. > :08:02.constituency, we are looking at the regional assembly members. There are
:08:03. > :08:09.40 constituency AMs, 20 regional AMs. Five members in each of the
:08:10. > :08:12.four regions. In North Wales, we saw Ukip getting their first AMs
:08:13. > :08:18.collected here to Cardiff Bay, to fit them in North Wales. Then you
:08:19. > :08:21.have a huge area, mid and West Wales where Labour do quite well last
:08:22. > :08:26.night, ensuring a possible they had in 2011, two members there as well
:08:27. > :08:32.as other parties. In south Wales, you got a decent night for Plaid
:08:33. > :08:38.Cymru, Mormonism may Haddin 2011, and in south Wales Central, decent
:08:39. > :08:48.night for the Conservatives. Losing seats elsewhere on the regional
:08:49. > :08:55.list, ... To AMs there. That is how it looks on the regions on a map of
:08:56. > :08:58.Wales. This is how it looks in the virtual reality chamber. How does it
:08:59. > :09:03.look after the fifth of them the election? Labour are the largest
:09:04. > :09:08.party with 29 members but short of the winning line, not getting the
:09:09. > :09:12.overall majority. The new main opposition party, Plaid Cymru, on 12
:09:13. > :09:17.AMs, one more than last time. They pushed the Conservatives into third
:09:18. > :09:22.place and took the number of AMs down to 11, that is down for from
:09:23. > :09:27.their tally in 2011. And the new kids on the block, Ukip, seven AMs
:09:28. > :09:31.for them. All of them coming from those regional lists I told you
:09:32. > :09:37.about earlier. The first time we have seen Ukip AMs and Cardiff Bay.
:09:38. > :09:42.And one lone Lib Dem, Kirsty Williams, holding to her seat there.
:09:43. > :09:47.So that is how it looks after yesterday's collection. Not an awful
:09:48. > :09:51.look -- not changing but this was the election with those changes on
:09:52. > :09:53.the regional list seats made a very big difference.
:09:54. > :09:55.So, a set of results which keeps Labour in power
:09:56. > :09:59.Barring a political earthquake, the party always was going remain
:10:00. > :10:02.the largest in the Assembly, but Labour managed to hang
:10:03. > :10:04.on to seats many pundits thought it would lose.
:10:05. > :10:10.But with that one exception in Rhondda, Labour's campaign
:10:11. > :10:12.delivered just enough votes in just the right places
:10:13. > :10:29.Think Wales, think labour for almost a century, the party has shaped the
:10:30. > :10:32.landscape here. In the assembly, Labour has governed for every one of
:10:33. > :10:37.the 17 years since it was established. Today the remarkable
:10:38. > :10:43.run was expended but later had to scrap for it. I made a range of
:10:44. > :10:46.phone calls before air. Labour sound preachy to me, pretty nervous about
:10:47. > :10:51.a number of the marginal seats we have spoken about their already.
:10:52. > :10:55.That sentiment was picked up by many of us watching overnight. This
:10:56. > :10:58.election has been different for Labour. Speak to candidates and
:10:59. > :11:02.party workers and they will tell you they have had a real fight on their
:11:03. > :11:05.hands, even in seats where traditionally they have won
:11:06. > :11:12.comfortably. Here in north-east Wales, there is a long standing
:11:13. > :11:15.Labour tradition. In Wrexham, Lesley Griffiths was defending a healthy
:11:16. > :11:25.3000 vote majority. She won again but with a swing against her. It has
:11:26. > :11:29.been hard. We have been in power for 17 years. You will have heard our
:11:30. > :11:34.opposition parties saying it is time for change. It is not something you
:11:35. > :11:38.just get, you have to earn every vote and I have been very happy to
:11:39. > :11:51.go out there and tell the Welsh Labour story and burned those votes.
:11:52. > :11:54.Welsh Labour, Plaid Cymru, 9506. And for Wrexham Reid, Vale of Clywd
:11:55. > :12:01.where the Conservatives won at the general election, says that Labour
:12:02. > :12:05.held again this time but with reduced majorities. Labour are
:12:06. > :12:10.celebrating. They go into the assembly with 29 seats, just one
:12:11. > :12:13.down last time. Tory challenges in places like Cardiff North and
:12:14. > :12:19.available more than were shrugged off, the party comfortably held a
:12:20. > :12:23.by-election in Ogmore. Not bad, it appears, for a party and governed
:12:24. > :12:29.for seven years. But look at Labour's overall share of the vote.
:12:30. > :12:34.That fell yesterday by more than 7%. Even in the South Wales valleys,
:12:35. > :12:40.Labour found itself in a battle. Here was the biggest shock of the
:12:41. > :12:46.night in wonder. -- Rhondda. Leighton Andrews majority of 6000
:12:47. > :12:52.was swept aside by Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood. I think there are
:12:53. > :12:58.issues, as I said, for the party, and there are issues at a Welsh
:12:59. > :13:04.level and I think there are very clear issues at a UK level. The
:13:05. > :13:10.pattern was repeated across the heartland. Alan Davies was defending
:13:11. > :13:16.a 10,000 majority and won by just 650, a massive swing to Plaid. You
:13:17. > :13:22.get a lot of moral authority, it is better than the opinion poll, even
:13:23. > :13:30.the exit poll on the day predicted and the uncertainties and the
:13:31. > :13:33.predicted a video of politics where Labour did every well to win all the
:13:34. > :13:40.key marginals and then goes and losers Rhondda. Labour remains the
:13:41. > :13:45.dominant force in Wales, it proved resilient and delivered the vote in
:13:46. > :13:51.places where it mattered. It has hung on but the party has been in a
:13:52. > :13:55.real fight. And the First Minister Carwyn Jones joins me now.
:13:56. > :13:59.Congratulations. You don't have a majority, what will you do? Can we
:14:00. > :14:04.expect a coalition will you go it alone? We have to put a government
:14:05. > :14:09.in place. We will look to set up a government next week. It would be a
:14:10. > :14:13.minority government but of course we will carry on discussing things with
:14:14. > :14:18.the other parties. Why do you think you lost the heartland seat in
:14:19. > :14:21.wonder? Why did that go to Plaid? Difficult to know. We didn't see it
:14:22. > :14:26.coming, there was no indication on the ground, so we will need to look
:14:27. > :14:29.carefully what happened in order to put ourselves in the position of
:14:30. > :14:33.being able to win the seat back in the future. But we're happy that we
:14:34. > :14:40.held a Conservative challenge across the rest of Wales and of course to
:14:41. > :14:46.be the position that we are in. We look to form government now. And
:14:47. > :14:51.describing Plaid Cymru as a cheap date probably doesn't look so clever
:14:52. > :14:54.now, does it? Well, these things come together and you find yourself
:14:55. > :14:58.in a situation where you have results that you don't expect and
:14:59. > :15:02.that is the nature of their actions. Leighton will be great loss to us as
:15:03. > :15:06.a party and to the nation as well. Has Jeremy Corbyn been in touch? Not
:15:07. > :15:13.yet but I have to say I have had only a few hours of sleep over the
:15:14. > :15:17.afternoon so I bet I will speak to him over the next few days. Five
:15:18. > :15:21.years ago, I asked you what your probity is would be for the five
:15:22. > :15:26.years and you said, delivery, delivery, delivery. If you are on a
:15:27. > :15:30.hospital waiting list and Wales, Wendy think you might deliver?
:15:31. > :15:35.People want us to be the largest party and they gave us their votes
:15:36. > :15:39.may say something in return. That means implementing our manifesto. We
:15:40. > :15:43.have six key pledges we want to take forward and of course continue to
:15:44. > :15:47.invest in our health service. We went around the country asking
:15:48. > :15:51.people what they wanted and in every community they told us they wanted
:15:52. > :15:56.to health, house, house, transport. That was their big priority. The
:15:57. > :16:00.pressure is on big-time. It always is with health. There are pressures
:16:01. > :16:04.across the UK. We understand there are some areas where we do well like
:16:05. > :16:08.cancer and stroke and there are other areas will be need to do well
:16:09. > :16:09.and we understand that. That is where our focus will be over the
:16:10. > :16:15.next few months and years. Assembly history was made
:16:16. > :16:18.today as 7 UKIP assembly members were returned -
:16:19. > :16:21.the first time the party has been Among their AMs will be
:16:22. > :16:28.former Conservative MPs UKIP's success came on the regional
:16:29. > :16:34.lists but there were strong showings for the party
:16:35. > :16:41.in many constituencies too. Our reporter, Nick Palit,
:16:42. > :16:49.has been finding how A huge swathe of the ballets turned
:16:50. > :16:57.purple last night with the Ukip victory on the regional list for
:16:58. > :17:00.South West, Central and East. But it wasn't confined to just hear.
:17:01. > :17:06.Historical breakthrough for the party came around 7:45am this
:17:07. > :17:11.morning, when Nathan Gill, the leader, was one of the 2am is a
:17:12. > :17:16.lectured on the North regional list. After tucking into a victory breath
:17:17. > :17:21.but -- breakfast, you could hardly contain his joy. The moon. We've
:17:22. > :17:24.gone from zero to having representation representation in the
:17:25. > :17:31.assembly. It seems that the impossible dream for so many years.
:17:32. > :17:34.Across the valleys, from Caerphilly to Pontypool, Ukip did extremely
:17:35. > :17:40.well. More than 22% of people voted for them. It's terrible down here.
:17:41. > :17:48.And its sentiments of communities who feel like they've been abandoned
:17:49. > :17:59.have seen Ukip's vote rise. It gave the regional lists picture reads.
:18:00. > :18:02.Did you write for Ukip? I did yes. We got these people coming into this
:18:03. > :18:07.country, but they're not the king after the ones that we've got that
:18:08. > :18:11.need homes. I voted for them because of their stance on Europe. We had
:18:12. > :18:20.Labour so long, let's have a change and see what happens. A couple of
:18:21. > :18:25.big- hitters too. Neil Hamilton, returning home to Wales. Mark
:18:26. > :18:30.reckless gaining one of the Central seat, but Nigel Farage, who visited
:18:31. > :18:36.South Wales during the campaign, the result is a good springboard for the
:18:37. > :18:41.party. They are more voices for Brexit in Wales than their work this
:18:42. > :18:44.time yesterday. That means -- makes a big difference. People believe
:18:45. > :18:54.that the Ukip AM to shake things up. They have a different approach to
:18:55. > :18:59.devolution, perhaps. Baby the job of electing, will provide decent new
:19:00. > :19:09.elements. We don't know quite how that's going to play out. Gary
:19:10. > :19:16.Bennett, the Ukip candidate, caused outrage when he blamed it the area
:19:17. > :19:21.on Eastern European 's. Despite this, it didn't seem to affect
:19:22. > :19:33.Ukip's seats. We happily does Neil Hamilton. --
:19:34. > :19:40.have with us Neil Hamilton, and his wife Christine. We frequently come
:19:41. > :19:45.to Wales to work. This was a bit elliptical opportunity for you,
:19:46. > :19:51.wasn't it? Of course. I suppose if the election had been now, I
:19:52. > :19:57.wouldn't be here now. But I am here. I've been elected. But, you don't
:19:58. > :20:08.live here, do you? At the moment, no. Will you move it? It includes
:20:09. > :20:13.the hold-up reckon, Radnor and Monmouthshire. The answer may be a
:20:14. > :20:19.mobile home. I don't know. A problem that we'll have to solve. We'll get
:20:20. > :20:23.some experience of the job before we make any final decisions. There's a
:20:24. > :20:27.big personalities in the assembly, are you all going to get on or do
:20:28. > :20:31.you think we'll see you all the squabbles you give are famous for?
:20:32. > :20:35.You wouldn't see a political party without squabbles. I spent a long
:20:36. > :20:41.time in politics and I've seen some cosmic scraps in my time, in the
:20:42. > :20:49.Conservative Party with Thatcher, I saw John Major's Government area
:20:50. > :20:55.sales to pieces. -- ten itself to pieces. We will be a cohesive team.
:20:56. > :21:01.Christine, you are known for standing up for your husband. Should
:21:02. > :21:09.some of the assembly members be a bit worried? It wasn't my plan for
:21:10. > :21:12.Neil to stand for the Senedd, I'm here to support him, but absolutely
:21:13. > :21:18.not, they need not be worried at all. You don't see yourself having
:21:19. > :21:21.much of a role? Have a role, that a background role, looking after the
:21:22. > :21:26.diary or something like that. We are not storming here as a couple. You
:21:27. > :21:32.asked me to come on with him. I didn't choose it myself.
:21:33. > :21:47.Let's talk to Nick now about Ukip and the rise of Ukip. Region after
:21:48. > :21:55.region last night, very consistently got the vote. That's the result
:21:56. > :22:00.we've got. 7am 's. Questions unanswered, really. What kind of
:22:01. > :22:04.party will Ukip be after the European referendum? They will break
:22:05. > :22:10.up the consensus here, and to appoint that will be true. There's
:22:11. > :22:16.consensus about Law- making powers, and among all the parties, and they
:22:17. > :22:21.will contribute and noisy set of voices that will be that -- against
:22:22. > :22:26.that consensus when it breaks up. The Conservatives have never had
:22:27. > :22:31.agreed to the right of them. The possibility now is that they would
:22:32. > :22:37.be a right- wing romp here in the Senedd am wondering if that will
:22:38. > :22:38.cause greater polarisation of the politics and policies of Cardiff
:22:39. > :22:40.Bay. The shock result of the election
:22:41. > :22:43.was Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood ousting
:22:44. > :22:44.Labour's Public Services Minister It was the only constituency seat
:22:45. > :22:49.to change hands in the election. She described her victory
:22:50. > :22:51.as a "new dawn" for the valleys. But in other parts of the country,
:22:52. > :23:07.the party missed out on some After months pounding these
:23:08. > :23:13.pavements, now comes the victory tour. Leanne Wood beating Labour in
:23:14. > :23:16.the valleys may be the biggest upset of this election but it comes as no
:23:17. > :23:25.surprise that the people of this town. She worked really hard. She
:23:26. > :23:30.was canvassing. She was approachable, nice. She is for the
:23:31. > :23:34.people of the Rhondda, you know. She'll be a good thing browse. I
:23:35. > :23:38.think it's a wake-up call to Labour. They'd been the bosses around here
:23:39. > :23:46.for a long time, and it's just a wake-up call for them, I think. It's
:23:47. > :23:49.clear that here in the Rhondda, Plaid Cymru have reaped what they
:23:50. > :23:55.sowed. Leanne Wood is well known here and popular. But despite her
:23:56. > :24:03.success, the party still only going one extra seat. What they did get,
:24:04. > :24:10.though, was next best thing, an upward swing in there. Most
:24:11. > :24:17.noticeably in Labour strongholds. They came close in a 30% shift in
:24:18. > :24:24.the vote, and in Cardiff West, they put Labour under heavy pressure. I
:24:25. > :24:29.declare that Lee Waters is duly elected member of the National
:24:30. > :24:33.Assembly for Wales for this said constituency. Yet in their more
:24:34. > :24:41.traditional seeds, they failed to gain ground. Maybe they didn't have
:24:42. > :24:47.the same level of organisation in these places, over the same period.
:24:48. > :24:52.I think that has led to them not making ground in areas where they
:24:53. > :24:57.would hope to make. Still, as a leader Leanne Wood looks assured.
:24:58. > :25:04.Media coverage has boosted her profile and won her praise from a
:25:05. > :25:08.fellow politician. She's a great pal of mine. She will be an outstanding
:25:09. > :25:15.member of the Welsh assembly. I know it means a lot to her to be elected.
:25:16. > :25:18.With a few new Plaid Cymru faces, it's not quite the breakthrough
:25:19. > :25:22.they'd hoped for, but still, something to celebrate is.
:25:23. > :25:24.So the party's leader Leanne Wood beat former
:25:25. > :25:26.Labour Minister Leighton Andrews in Rhondda.
:25:27. > :25:28.But elsewhere Plaid failed to make the breakthrough.
:25:29. > :25:32.I spoke to Leanne Wood in Treorchy earlier today.
:25:33. > :25:41.Congratulations on your victory. It must be all the more sweet, winning
:25:42. > :25:47.from someone who called you a cheap date. I never personalised politics.
:25:48. > :25:51.I'm proud to have won the trust from the Rhondda. We've worked very hard,
:25:52. > :25:56.my team and I, tramping the streets for months and months now. So, I'm
:25:57. > :26:02.pleased for the positive campaign that we've run to see the positive
:26:03. > :26:07.result we had last night. You'll it I'm questionably are substantial,
:26:08. > :26:13.personal victory in this constituency. What it is not is
:26:14. > :26:21.Plaid Cymru's big breakthrough. You stalled, going up by 1%. Yes. You're
:26:22. > :26:24.right. I wanted us to be in a position to form the alternative
:26:25. > :26:28.Government, but it's going in the right direction, and so, is not a
:26:29. > :26:32.bad night for Plaid Cymru. If you consider where the other parties
:26:33. > :26:38.are, Labour certainly didn't have a very good night. They lost seats.
:26:39. > :26:46.The Tories lost seats. Lib Dems have lost seats. Plaid Cymru have gained
:26:47. > :26:55.seat -- seat, so from that, we're one party who can say we can hold
:26:56. > :27:00.our heads up high. You spent weeks talking to people. They are angry
:27:01. > :27:03.about schools, hospital organisation, but it's not
:27:04. > :27:08.channelled towards you and supporting you, which must be an
:27:09. > :27:14.immense worry for you. You're not seeing as the natural place for
:27:15. > :27:20.opposition. I'm a set of the reasonable when I've just taken --
:27:21. > :27:25.not going to sit and be miserable when I've just taken a seat in
:27:26. > :27:29.Rhondda. I would have liked to see more seats, of course. And a few
:27:30. > :27:33.votes going the other way would have delivered more seats for Plaid
:27:34. > :27:37.Cymru. We aren't in that place. People have given the results that
:27:38. > :27:44.they have given. They've spoken. Will you be dubbed the Labour Party?
:27:45. > :27:53.In are propping up in anyway, I can't see -- in are propping up I
:27:54. > :27:59.can't see that happening. We will decide, my colleagues and I, what
:28:00. > :28:05.our strategy will be. So there might be a coalition with Labour? Until
:28:06. > :28:06.I've read great with my colleagues, I'm not going to comment any further
:28:07. > :28:15.on those matters with my colleagues. During the first term
:28:16. > :28:17.of the National Assembly, the Welsh Liberal Democrats found
:28:18. > :28:19.themselves in government Today, they've been
:28:20. > :28:22.reduced to just one AM. Kirsty Williams actually
:28:23. > :28:23.increased her majority But she saw the rest of her fellow
:28:24. > :28:27.Lib Dems beaten. And earlier she announced her
:28:28. > :28:29.resignation as the party's She spoke to our political
:28:30. > :28:44.editor, Nick Servini. We had a fantastic result in Brecon.
:28:45. > :28:49.One week and even predicted, not even us. We did really well in
:28:50. > :28:53.Cardiff Central, being competitive right until the very end. Overnight,
:28:54. > :29:03.it was touch and go whether we would make it. We pushed really hard.
:29:04. > :29:07.There are signs there, where we are working on the ground, we can get
:29:08. > :29:12.results and be competitive, and that's important as we take the
:29:13. > :29:16.party forward into our local Government elections next year,
:29:17. > :29:20.which traditionally, the Welsh party, have been the building blocks
:29:21. > :29:24.of success. The future and fortunes of this party aren't going to
:29:25. > :29:28.recover overnight. It's going to take longer than 12 months from the
:29:29. > :29:33.worst general election. We would do it ward by Ward, seat by seat. You
:29:34. > :29:37.have to do without agreed that the assembly, of course. Interns are
:29:38. > :29:41.that rebuilding, it's going to happen without you is the leader of
:29:42. > :29:49.the party in Wales. You're stepping down. Why are you doing that? Nick,
:29:50. > :29:54.I'm already the longest serving leader in the National Assembly in
:29:55. > :30:00.Wales. I've done to National Assembly elections, to general
:30:01. > :30:03.elections. Bet you are clearly the asset for your party. I don't
:30:04. > :30:08.believe that. It's the growing membership. The experienced
:30:09. > :30:14.volunteers that have been with us for a long time. But more
:30:15. > :30:19.importantly, the new members, we've had people joining on polling day.
:30:20. > :30:24.I've done a years. I would've stepped down after this election
:30:25. > :30:30.anyway. It's the right time the party have somebody new, pick up the
:30:31. > :30:35.challenge, bringing new ideas and drive the party forward. I had to
:30:36. > :30:39.take responsibility for the result we've had. Disappointing results,
:30:40. > :30:43.and it seems that it's only right that I take that decision now. Are
:30:44. > :30:50.you minded to support this Labour Government in a lot of the
:30:51. > :30:53.decisions? What I'm minded to do is use the experience that is guided me
:30:54. > :30:58.over the last five years. Where there agreement, whatever colour in
:30:59. > :31:07.the national assembly, I will support that. But, if I think they
:31:08. > :31:11.are failing, I will do what I can to use my influence to deliver Liberal
:31:12. > :31:15.Democrat priorities, and I would do that if it's just me, or whether I
:31:16. > :31:16.had a group behind me. Its policies with always talked about throughout
:31:17. > :31:19.this campaign. It was a desperately disappointing
:31:20. > :31:22.night for the Welsh Conservatives. After big gains in last year's
:31:23. > :31:24.General Election, they failed to And for the first time,
:31:25. > :31:29.they're down on their total compared Our reporter Ben Price has been
:31:30. > :31:34.to two of the seats that made it a night to forget for
:31:35. > :31:46.the Welsh Conservatives. 12 months ago, there were scenes of
:31:47. > :31:50.jubilation for the Conservative Party on the streets of Gower. It
:31:51. > :31:55.was an historic moment as the Labour Party were defeated here for the
:31:56. > :31:58.first time in over 100 years. Many people believed the Welsh
:31:59. > :32:00.Conservative Party could have carried that momentum on into
:32:01. > :32:07.disassembly election and so the battle lines were drawn here in
:32:08. > :32:12.Gower once again. There were many closely contested seats across
:32:13. > :32:16.Wales. But it didn't go to plan. The party held on six constituency seats
:32:17. > :32:24.but only managed to maintain five out of eight regional ones, taking
:32:25. > :32:27.the total of AMs in the Senedd to 11 but three fewer than the previous
:32:28. > :32:34.term. So, have things gone wrong for the Welsh Tories? I don't think so.
:32:35. > :32:38.Overall, it may be that policies and none done there have been
:32:39. > :32:43.controversial issues recently, we've got the steel industry issue in Port
:32:44. > :32:49.Talbot and in Gower here we have a lot of steelworkers living here.
:32:50. > :32:54.That may have had an influence. The high street in Cardiff North, they
:32:55. > :32:58.already have a Conservative MP and many had the popular local
:32:59. > :33:03.councillor as favourite this year. But today it is Labour who are
:33:04. > :33:06.celebrating an unexpected victory, even managing to increase their
:33:07. > :33:12.majority. The conservative vote fell by more than 7%. I thought it would
:33:13. > :33:16.be close but I wasn't totally surprised because I think with the
:33:17. > :33:20.Jarreau coming up, I think there was a lack of, not into rest, but
:33:21. > :33:26.incentive to get out there. I was expecting more votes because she has
:33:27. > :33:32.done more for the constituency. There was plenty of fighting talk
:33:33. > :33:36.from the leader of the Conservatives during the election campaign. He was
:33:37. > :33:39.said confident of giving Labour bloody nose but after a hard-fought
:33:40. > :33:42.battle, it is the blue corner who are left feeling bruised.
:33:43. > :33:45.We did want to speak to the leader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT
:33:46. > :33:48.Davies this evening but we were told he was not available.
:33:49. > :33:51.Let me take you to Westminster now and our Parliamentary Correspondent,
:33:52. > :33:53.David Cornock, who is in Downing Street for us tonight.
:33:54. > :33:55.David, the Conservatives running the UK Government,
:33:56. > :34:05.Is it back to business as usual between the two administrations?
:34:06. > :34:11.We have heard from one Welsh Conservatives tonight, Alun Cairns,
:34:12. > :34:16.the Secretary of State for Wales, he has issued a statement saying that
:34:17. > :34:20.he is calling for a new relationship between the two governments. He once
:34:21. > :34:25.the tribalism of Welsh politics to be replaced by new relationships of
:34:26. > :34:30.Edmonton. He other device five areas where he says the Welsh government
:34:31. > :34:35.should be prioritising better working with the UK Government. He
:34:36. > :34:40.starts with steel industry whether two governments are working closely
:34:41. > :34:46.together, he talks about prioritising the economy, he wants
:34:47. > :34:48.improvements made to the M4 in the south, and more controversially
:34:49. > :34:55.perhaps he talks about working together on the EU referendum to
:34:56. > :34:59.campaign for a vote to remain in the referendum and the next stage of
:35:00. > :35:01.devolution. He says he was the two governments to work together to
:35:02. > :35:05.deliver what he calls a real Parliament for Wales with the power
:35:06. > :35:13.to raise some of the money it spends. Some of those areas will be
:35:14. > :35:18.trickier than others. Yes, he talks of the need for cross-party unity on
:35:19. > :35:24.Europe, for example. That is difficult. Easy to talk about
:35:25. > :35:27.cross-party unity, more difficult when your own party, the
:35:28. > :35:31.Conservatives, are split from top to bottom on the issue and when the
:35:32. > :35:36.leader of the Welsh Conservatives want Britain to leave the EU after
:35:37. > :35:43.next month's referendum vote. And when it comes to devolution, the
:35:44. > :35:46.next date, that was paused by his predecessor Stephen Crabb so he will
:35:47. > :35:51.need a lot of goodwill on both sides if he is going to get that back on
:35:52. > :35:55.track. We will see next few weeks and months what pragmatism really
:35:56. > :35:57.means in terms of his ability to deliver that.
:35:58. > :36:03.A reminder of our main headline tonight.
:36:04. > :36:09.Labour remained the largest party in the Senedd after the last election
:36:10. > :36:15.but without an overall majority. Later in the programme, turnout was
:36:16. > :36:17.at its highest since 1999, but why did you than half of us actually go
:36:18. > :36:20.to the polls? More from Cardiff Bay
:36:21. > :36:22.in a few moments. First, the rest of the day's
:36:23. > :36:24.news with Nicola Smith. Thanks, Jamie.
:36:25. > :36:26.Good evening. The management buyout company that
:36:27. > :36:29.wants to purchase TATA Steel's UK assets will meet bankers
:36:30. > :36:32.to seek financial backing. Stuart Wilkie who heads
:36:33. > :36:35.Excalibur Steel says there are plans to have discussions with one British
:36:36. > :36:38.bank, and three international banks A court has heard that a doctor
:36:39. > :36:45.refused to visit a 12-year-old boy at his home in Blaenau Gwent
:36:46. > :36:48.the day before he died, Ryan Morse from Brynithel had
:36:49. > :36:55.Addison's disease, a rare disorder. Cardiff Crown Court heard that
:36:56. > :36:59.Dr Joanne Rudling told his mother, he was going through
:37:00. > :37:02.hormonal changes. Dr Rudling and Dr Lindsey Thomas
:37:03. > :37:04.deny manslaughter and An ambulance driver who crashed
:37:05. > :37:12.into a second ambulance last week in Gwynedd had suffered a heart
:37:13. > :37:15.attack at the wheel. 54-year-old John Cliftt died
:37:16. > :37:19.at the scene of natural causes. The incident happened on the A499,
:37:20. > :37:35.north of Y Ffor. The results in the Police and Crime
:37:36. > :37:38.Commissioner is in Wales will be announced on Sunday. Votes were cast
:37:39. > :37:41.last night. Four will be elected across Wales.
:37:42. > :37:49.football, Cardiff City manager Russell Slade has been moved to a
:37:50. > :37:53.new job. He will oversee scouting, amongst other duties. The new head
:37:54. > :37:55.coach will be appointed at the championship club. Let's go back to
:37:56. > :37:58.the Senedd now. Turnout at the election
:37:59. > :38:01.was up a bit on last time But for an institution which is more
:38:02. > :38:07.powerful than ever before, with responsibility for schools
:38:08. > :38:09.and hospitals. Arwyn has been
:38:10. > :38:25.crunching the figures. Thank you. Just over 1 million
:38:26. > :38:30.people voted yesterday in the assembly elections. Around 45% of
:38:31. > :38:35.those eligible to do so. How does that compared with the other
:38:36. > :38:42.elections we have seen since 1999? Here are all the assembly elections.
:38:43. > :38:47.Back in 1999, the highest percentage, 46%, but after that, it
:38:48. > :38:54.is not that promising up picture. We see it going down and down until
:38:55. > :38:59.actually 45%, decent enough result in the context of assembly elections
:39:00. > :39:03.but where there might be cause for concern is this other grass. This is
:39:04. > :39:08.the turnout for elections to Westminster elections. We had one
:39:09. > :39:14.just after the 99 election, there was a gap there, 15%, more people
:39:15. > :39:18.turning out to vote in Westminster elections rather than assembly
:39:19. > :39:22.elections and that gap grows and grows and grows until after
:39:23. > :39:25.yesterday, compared to last year, we had a million people wedding
:39:26. > :39:30.yesterday that last you the general election in Wales, 1.5 million
:39:31. > :39:34.people turning up to vote, 20 percentage point difference there
:39:35. > :39:38.between those voting in assembly elections and Westminster elections
:39:39. > :39:46.and that I guess will be a cause for concern for everybody involved with
:39:47. > :39:52.elections to this place. I Welsh affairs reporter has been covering
:39:53. > :39:59.election since the beginning. It is patchy, isn't it? It is. It varies
:40:00. > :40:02.from the mid-30s to the mid-50s and as you would expect, turnout is
:40:03. > :40:06.highest where you have the most competitive races. There were some
:40:07. > :40:10.exceptions to that, particularly where parties made an effort to get
:40:11. > :40:17.people out to vote even where there wasn't a company -- compared of
:40:18. > :40:21.race. Ukip is the big headlines dealer of this election. Yes, but we
:40:22. > :40:25.were expecting it. We have seen the polls for a long time suggesting
:40:26. > :40:28.this would happen. There was a bit of a question about whether those
:40:29. > :40:34.people would turn out to vote. In the end, in terms of Ukip, the polls
:40:35. > :40:42.got it more or less right. It will alter the dynamic to have to parties
:40:43. > :40:45.of the centre-right and two parties of the centre-left, rather than
:40:46. > :40:48.three at the centre left and one of the centre-right. Who would have
:40:49. > :40:55.thought that Labour would come back with 29 seats but the same 29 seats
:40:56. > :40:59.that they held before, with one exception and the one exception was
:41:00. > :41:04.the Rhondda. No one would have predicted that. For Plaid, after
:41:05. > :41:08.years of flat lining in assembly elections, this, at last for them,
:41:09. > :41:15.is summer meant in the right direction. Good results in
:41:16. > :41:22.Caerphilly, Cardiff West. If he were a fly on the wall in Conservative of
:41:23. > :41:28.Lib Dem HQ tonight, I wonder what is being said. Great disappointment. I
:41:29. > :41:34.think there will be great sympathy for Kirsty Williams for her
:41:35. > :41:37.decision. She put everything on the field in very difficult
:41:38. > :41:42.circumstances. In the conservative camp, I think people will attach
:41:43. > :41:46.blame to Andrew RT Davies and I think his leadership will be under
:41:47. > :41:48.an awful lot of pressure in the days to come.
:41:49. > :41:50.Throughout the Assembly election campaign, we've been asking
:41:51. > :41:53.you what you would do if you were First Minister,
:41:54. > :41:57.And we have been overwhelmed by your response.
:41:58. > :42:00.Thank you to everyone who's got in touch.
:42:01. > :42:03.In fact, one book wasn't enough to fit in all your ideas -
:42:04. > :42:08.We travelled right across the country to hear your views,
:42:09. > :42:11.and here's a reminder of what some of you said you want
:42:12. > :42:25.Over the past five weeks, we have been asking you to tell us what you
:42:26. > :42:30.would do if you were First Minister. You have let us know in your
:42:31. > :42:36.hundreds. I would build in north to South motorway. I would give schools
:42:37. > :42:43.more money for resources. I would reorganise the NHS. We have put all
:42:44. > :42:47.your ideas into my manifesto 2016, a book full of the issues that matter
:42:48. > :42:55.to you. Lots of you shared your own stories. Might daughter is disabled.
:42:56. > :42:59.We have been come full-time carers. I would like to see the First
:43:00. > :43:05.Minister put in place 20 of support for carers as well as the people
:43:06. > :43:11.that we care for. A lot of jobs starring Cardiff, Swansea, Newport,
:43:12. > :43:17.a bit in Bristol as well. There is nothing local. And the issue most of
:43:18. > :43:20.you got in touch about was how. When you have a terminal bike gnosis, you
:43:21. > :43:25.don't want to be going up and down to another place to access your
:43:26. > :43:30.treatment. It would have reduced the most terrible trauma in my life.
:43:31. > :43:34.Health was closely followed by cuts to council services and education.
:43:35. > :43:41.If I were First Minister, I would provide more council farms. I would
:43:42. > :43:44.support Welsh students for their masters degrees. Was the First
:43:45. > :43:48.Minister has appointed his Cabinet, we will hand over the book and press
:43:49. > :43:55.him on the issues that matter to you. Within hours of the People's he
:43:56. > :44:02.saw there in that round-up. Steve Evans, and a Holland, and Mr Lewis.
:44:03. > :44:07.Let me start with you. Just remind us of what was important to you in
:44:08. > :44:11.this election and why. I wanted to make sure that people with
:44:12. > :44:15.disillusioned had fair play. I have a four-year-old daughter who is
:44:16. > :44:20.disabled and I want her to have fair play as she grows up into adult
:44:21. > :44:24.hood. Why is that important to you? Because she is my daughter! Do you
:44:25. > :44:30.feel that you have been looked after? At the moment, yes, but my
:44:31. > :44:36.fear is when she reaches to adult hood, what is her future? I voted
:44:37. > :44:40.Plaid Comrie. I want our AMs to focus on Wales are not have their
:44:41. > :44:45.heads turned towards London. Are you happy with the way things have
:44:46. > :44:49.panned out? I would have liked to have seen more Plaid Cymru seats in
:44:50. > :44:55.the valleys, we need to work harder for the votes. Steve, we met in
:44:56. > :44:59.Porth up in the Rhondda, you were telling me about how would you want
:45:00. > :45:03.jobs closer to home and better transport links, won't you? Tell me
:45:04. > :45:07.why that is important to you. As we have seen in the report, I have
:45:08. > :45:11.struggled to find work. I think it is because of the commute. It would
:45:12. > :45:16.be nicer to have jobs closer to home, to bring back communities and
:45:17. > :45:24.there are plenty of empty buildings that can be used. You have tried to
:45:25. > :45:29.find work where you are. Yes, I graduated and have struggled
:45:30. > :45:34.massively, there are very few jobs up here. They are mainly in Cardiff,
:45:35. > :45:38.Newport, Swansea, Bristol, and even more in London. You think the new
:45:39. > :45:44.Welsh government will deliver for you? How do you Tube boat? I voted
:45:45. > :45:48.for Leanne Wood because I hope she will start to speaking up for the
:45:49. > :45:53.Rhondda because I feel we have lost a vote -- voice and did the
:45:54. > :46:01.government will speak up for us, we will see. Annie, let me turn to you.
:46:02. > :46:07.You told me about what you believe is an NHS postcode lottery. Tell us
:46:08. > :46:11.about your story. I've got cancer, terminal cancer, and I discovered
:46:12. > :46:14.three and a half years ago that I couldn't have a drug but if I lived
:46:15. > :46:19.in carefully I could have had it, and I didn't think that was fair. So
:46:20. > :46:26.I have been campaigning for three and a half years to try and change
:46:27. > :46:30.this. You feel about the results in this election? Do you feel hopeful?
:46:31. > :46:34.Well, we've got the same government and I wasn't happen with them last
:46:35. > :46:38.time. I do hope they will take a bit more notice of patient and what the
:46:39. > :46:43.people are asking of them. I think they have sometimes turned their
:46:44. > :46:49.ease away from us. We will be passing on this book. Let us hope it
:46:50. > :46:50.is listened to. Let's find out more about those issues that have swayed
:46:51. > :47:03.peoples vote in this election. Let's start. What is going to be the
:47:04. > :47:09.top of the trade for the next health minister. They will be tried crack
:47:10. > :47:15.on and deliver some of its key health issues, for example a new
:47:16. > :47:19.fund for health treatment, shifting the balance into community services
:47:20. > :47:23.but these are big challenges, not least waiting times, and the party
:47:24. > :47:29.itself admits that they are too long, not good enough for
:47:30. > :47:36.treatments. It was seriously difficult for the NHS in Wales.
:47:37. > :47:43.Overwhelmed with elderly and very sick patients turning up to a a even
:47:44. > :47:59.though -- a and a -- accident and emergency. With a health Minister
:48:00. > :48:04.state? -- will be health minister a? Many of them have had a short shelf
:48:05. > :48:08.life because of the job. The health minister has said he is privileged
:48:09. > :48:17.to do it, but Carwyn Jones Jones has said enough. Leighton Andrews was
:48:18. > :48:24.fancying that job, but he's lost his seat. That won't be happening now.
:48:25. > :48:29.The steel crisis raised its head at the beginning of the campaign, and
:48:30. > :48:35.it hasn't gone away. It certainly hasn't. It is really the issue that
:48:36. > :48:38.could feel the harshest light of the Welsh economy, and therefore the
:48:39. > :48:44.sale, and what happens in the future is absolutely vital to all of us,
:48:45. > :48:49.but I think what it did do, it made us realise how much global changes
:48:50. > :49:00.can really knock the Welsh economy off course, how much we are buffeted
:49:01. > :49:05.by it. But voters need to think about these things. There are some
:49:06. > :49:13.big projects on the horizon, like the M4 relief road. Where does this
:49:14. > :49:17.leave this kind of project? We know that Newport docks has already
:49:18. > :49:27.complained about the road not been finished last week. There has only
:49:28. > :49:31.been Vicki Young -- 50% underwriting by the Welsh Government. We need to
:49:32. > :49:39.look a city deals, the metro, the all Wales rail franchise. We're
:49:40. > :49:48.still very poor and something needs to be done about it. We've forced
:49:49. > :49:53.them to have black coffee and given them some matchsticks to keep their
:49:54. > :50:00.eyes open. Here we have Labour's Alan Davies, and Mike German from
:50:01. > :50:06.the Liberal Democrats. Congratulations. I think you are
:50:07. > :50:13.9400 majority last time, five years and your majority tricked -- dropped
:50:14. > :50:18.to 650. Labour is under each pressure in the valleys heartlands,
:50:19. > :50:29.from Plaid Cymru. I date thing you can learn harder lessons than last
:50:30. > :50:31.night. -- I don't think. We had local issues with the local
:50:32. > :50:37.authority of the council, the circuit of Wales, things which
:50:38. > :50:42.affect people in the ballets, but don't have wider resonance in other
:50:43. > :50:45.constituencies. Mike, you are essentially a party without a leader
:50:46. > :50:51.tonight. Why do you think your party was all but wiped out? Verster Ball,
:50:52. > :51:01.we had their results we've ever had last year at the general election.
:51:02. > :51:06.-- first of all. We put on in boat turns, increasing our photographs
:51:07. > :51:09.Wales, but it wasn't enough to defend ourselves in those key seat
:51:10. > :51:15.we intended to win, but that doesn't take anything away from the great
:51:16. > :51:25.result which Kirsty Williams had in her own constituency, which turned
:51:26. > :51:34.from a 5000 lost two a 9000 wind. Read tipping a leader? Will you be
:51:35. > :51:37.standing? Now. I can guarantee that. The party will have to look
:51:38. > :51:41.carefully at what it does. Kirsty has made a decision is for personal
:51:42. > :51:44.reasons, I understand that because she's been doing the job for eight
:51:45. > :51:52.years. She wants to move on in her life. It means that we have the
:51:53. > :51:56.party had to think of the future. You can stop campaigning now.
:51:57. > :52:03.Because it's all over. In your heart of hearts, what do you take home
:52:04. > :52:08.from this campaign for Labour? I think we've had our mandate renewed
:52:09. > :52:13.by the people of Wales, we come back with a far better result than anyone
:52:14. > :52:16.would have anticipated, so I think I got -- we have the right to form the
:52:17. > :52:20.Government. I do think there is anyone who can challenge Welsh
:52:21. > :52:25.Labour. We need to look at that. And then we need to look at how we
:52:26. > :52:29.govern. We need to govern with a sense of humility, if you like,
:52:30. > :52:34.possibly. And a sense of working with other parties in the assembly.
:52:35. > :52:40.I don't mean a coalition, but I mean working alongside people, and with
:52:41. > :52:49.people, rather than them acting as a minority-owned administration. Let's
:52:50. > :52:55.get the final word from Nick. Would you make of Labour's result? It was
:52:56. > :53:01.a huge result for them. Think of the circumstances in which they are
:53:02. > :53:04.operating, many Labour politicians believe that Jeremy Corbyn will
:53:05. > :53:09.never be Prime Minister. It's a party that is faced wipe-out in
:53:10. > :53:14.Scotland, and was hurt badly by the Tories in the general election a
:53:15. > :53:17.year ago, and in all of those marginal seats where they were up
:53:18. > :53:24.against the Conservatives, they didn't even lose one of them. No
:53:25. > :53:31.Tory voting at all. They had bright young things in the party, to
:53:32. > :53:35.hard-nosed local campaigners and Labour seem to soak that up and work
:53:36. > :53:45.able to withstand the pressure they were under. Crucially, there was a
:53:46. > :53:50.very strong narrative from the opposition parties, including Plaid
:53:51. > :53:56.Cymru. In the right hand at the right times, the idea of getting rid
:53:57. > :54:00.of Labour could be popular, but in terms of the Electric, it didn't
:54:01. > :54:06.happen desired effect, and as a result, Labour Willie had the same
:54:07. > :54:11.number of seats. The big challenges ahead? They still don't have an
:54:12. > :54:15.overall majority. They can be confident, but in terms of policies
:54:16. > :54:24.the people out there, there will be no big reorganisations in the end.
:54:25. > :54:30.-- in the NHS. Labour will look at their legacy projects. Will the
:54:31. > :54:34.relief road happen, with the 1 billion injection?
:54:35. > :54:37.Well, it has stayed dry here in Cardiff Bay, although it's
:54:38. > :54:48.Cloudier than yesterday but dry and bright.
:54:49. > :54:51.Pleasant evening here and that goes for the rest of Wales.
:54:52. > :54:52.21 degrees Celsius in Cardiff this afternoon.
:54:53. > :55:01.Over the weekend, it's going get even warmer.
:55:02. > :55:04.Sunday likely to be the warmest day of the year so far.
:55:05. > :55:06.Some hazy sunshine but it's not all plain sailing with
:55:07. > :55:14.a few heavy showers and thunderstorms in the forecast.
:55:15. > :55:16.Tonight, most places will remain dry, although I wouldn't rule out
:55:17. > :55:19.a shower in the south and west later in the night.
:55:20. > :55:22.Lowest temperatures around nine degrees Celsius in Welshpool.
:55:23. > :55:25.Tomorrow there is a Met Office yellow warning in force.
:55:26. > :55:27.Scattered showers, heavy and thundery in places,
:55:28. > :55:31.could cause some disruption to travel and outdoor activities.
:55:32. > :55:34.So, tomorrow, showers will spread northwards.
:55:35. > :55:39.Difficult to say exactly where the showers will be
:55:40. > :55:41.but they could be heavy with hail and thunder.
:55:42. > :55:43.Having that, you may be lucky and stay dry.
:55:44. > :55:47.Some bright spells and hazy sunshine as well.
:55:48. > :55:49.Top temperatures - 18 and 21 Celsius.
:55:50. > :55:52.Warmer than today on the north and west coast with a breeze off
:55:53. > :55:56.Now, the Carten 100 Cycle Ride is taking place tomorrow
:55:57. > :56:02.A few showers but some dry, bright weather as well.
:56:03. > :56:04.The temperature in Tenby around 15 degrees Celsius with a
:56:05. > :56:18.Tomorrow night, further showers will spread up from the south
:56:19. > :56:20.and again they could be heavy and thundery.
:56:21. > :56:21.A warm, muggy night with temperatures staying
:56:22. > :56:26.Thundery showers in the morning will clear leaving more in the way
:56:27. > :56:32.Temperatures rising into the low to mid 20s with a
:56:33. > :56:35.The heat may trigger one or two showers and
:56:36. > :56:38.If you're heading to the seaside on Sunday,
:56:39. > :56:42.A little cooler in Porthcawl with a breeze off the sea.
:56:43. > :56:44.Next week, more warm weather but also showers or longer
:56:45. > :56:46.spells of rain which maybe heavy and thundery.
:56:47. > :56:48.Towards the end of the week, it may turn cooler.
:56:49. > :56:53.Some fine weather and hazy sunshine but watch out for a few heavy
:56:54. > :57:12.The headlines again: Labour has been celebrating victory
:57:13. > :57:13.in the assembly election, defying many pre-election
:57:14. > :57:16.predications to finish on 29 seats, down just on on their total
:57:17. > :57:22.History was also made with UKIP returning their first AMs.
:57:23. > :57:26.The party won seven on the regional list.
:57:27. > :57:28.Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood defeats former Labour Minister
:57:29. > :57:34.Her party is now the second largest in the Assembly but failed to make
:57:35. > :57:37.The Conservatives are now down to 11 seats.
:57:38. > :57:40.And the sole Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams has announced her
:57:41. > :57:45.resignation as leader of the Welsh Lib Dems.
:57:46. > :57:51.We'll have a quick update for you at eight o'clock and again
:57:52. > :58:02.From all of us on the programme, good evening.