Inside the Welsh town that could herald a hard-right swing in U.K.'s elections

Nigel Farage's hard-right Reform UK party looks set to make sweeping gains in Wales and across Britain in local elections Thursday.

MERTHYR TYDFIL, Wales — All along the road that winds through the South Wales Valleys, the scars of an industrial past are etched into the landscape.

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