Now, polls suggest it may be pushed into third place behind Plaid Cymru and right-wing populists Reform UK.Peter Bevan spent more than 50 years at the steelworks, losing a couple of fingers in the process.Now retired, he can't quite believe this region, so closely linked to mining, steel production and trade unionism, could ever fall to another party."We'd always say you could put a donkey up for Labour and they'd walk it in," he laughs."The last few years I've seen a difference, people are getting more choosy and running Labour down."As Peter heads off for a stroll along the Port Talbot waterfront, Tom Randall stops for a chat Sometimes the frustration with that pace of change means that people aren't quite seeing and feeling it."Many lifelong Labour voters in the industrial heartland of Wales would agree