A member of the Senedd has quit Reform and joined Plaid Cymru, saying Reform has "no interest in Wales". Sarah Cooper-Lesadd's defection was approved by Plaid's Senedd group and national executive on Tuesday. It means Plaid, which won May's Senedd election, now has 44 members , leaving Reform - the largest opposition party - with 33 seats. Cooper-Lesadd, a former Conservative, was elected for the Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg constituency.

 

“My hope for meaningful change to the governance of Welsh rugby has all but disappeared. My faith in the current leadership of the WRU has disintegrated. It’s quite clear now that the leadership of the WRU is not going to do anything radical (even if they use this word) or change the future structure to anything other than a smaller-scale version of what we already have.”

I’m not sure I agree with everything in this, but there is a niggling voice in the back of my head that the WRU isn’t going far enough and fast enough to truly improve the future of the game in Wales.