London - The Labour Party tried to put its defeat in a Westminster by-election in Wales behind it yesterday and braced for a vote of no-confidence in its Welsh leader, Mr Alun Michael. The Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, kept control of Ceredigion, a rural west Wales constituency, with 10,716 votes. Labour was beaten into fourth place, capturing just 3,612 votes.
The Welsh nationalists vowed to press on with plotting Mr Michael's political demise.