Reform Leader Nigel Farage and new Senedd legislator Laura Anne Jones at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Llanelwedd on July 22.
Photographer: Tom Skipp/BloombergWelsh Voters Eye Reform as ‘Useless’ Labour’s Appeal Diminishes
Voters in Wales are peeling away from Labour in favor of minor parties, a trend that threatens to turn Nigel Farage’s Reform UK into the biggest party in the Welsh Senedd next year.
Retired steelworker Gordon Chambers has seen UK governments led by both Labour and the Conservatives fail to live up to his expectations for decades. Now, he says, it’s time to give Nigel Farage’s populist Reform Party the chance to govern.
“All the other parties are trying to knock them down, but at least give them a chance,” says Chambers, 94, sitting on a bench outside an empty shopping precinct in Port Talbot, South Wales. “Let him come in and knock himself down.”