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                                                Remain-supporting parties should discuss working together in a snap general election or second EU referendum, Plaid Cymru's leader said. Adam Price has written to the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, Change UK and the SNP.  He said they should work together for "as long as necessary" to deliver another vote on EU membership. His call comes after the Brexit Party took two Welsh seats in the recent EU elections. Plaid Cymru and Labour each took one of the country's four MEP seats in Brussels. Despite the Brexit Party's victory, Mr Price said the combined total votes given to anti-Brexit parties shows that Brexit "cannot be considered the settled will of the people". The Brexit Party gained 32.5% of the vote in Wales with UKIP taking 3.3% while Plaid Cymru received 19.6%, the Libera...

candidate in Wales for the European parliamentary elections Jon Owen Jones said politics is "broken" and that both Labour and the Conservatives have both been taken over by the "extremes". He said Change UK is "effectively" a single-issue party for campaigning for a new EU vote. The elections take place on May 23. The party - originally known as The Independent Group - was initially formed at the start of the year by 11 MPs who quit Labour and the Tories. In March, the group applied to become a party with the name Change UK and was given approval in April, meaning they could field candidates in the European elections. Jon Owen Jones - the Labour MP for Cardiff Central between 1992 and 2005 - said it was an "enormously difficult decision" to leave his old party after 50 years of membership. "Both the right-wing and the left-wing hate Europe because it stands as an obstacle for their own far-fetched ...