SUMMER rain threatened to dampen the turnout as EU refe-rain-dum finally took place after months of political wrangling, experts suggested yesterday.
Politicians left and right tried to make a last-minute splash as they posed outside polling booths, Theresa May making a late surge with the bookies for next Tory leader while Nigel Farage released a last minute video riffing off the US film title Independence Day.
A record number of voters registered to take part in the somewhat soggy polls, with the Electoral Commission putting the final totals at 46,499,537.
Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour
Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY


