pause for a second because we are about to have yet another string of results, notjust from scotland from wales as well. i will be talking as we go along with some of the results of the english local authorities too which are still coming in. in welsh terms, this is the picture really as we understand it. the ukip vote which was really high in wales in 2016 has pretty much evaporated. and where it has gone as far as we can measure it so far is that it has led to a kind of 5% boost for labour, and 5% for the conservatives, with plaid can reach pretty much flat and plaid can reach pretty much flat and plaid cymru would have expected to be not running flat in this senedd election, they would have been expecting to be shown to make some kind of gain. we will talk to one of plaid cymru s members in a second. but let s look at some of these battlegrounds first with rita so that we get a bit of context. i am just being told that swansea west has been held by labour, not a surprise.