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Nigel Farage wants to test ‘Trumpian politics’ in Wales, union leader warns
Reform UK leader in Wales Dan Thomas (left) and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the Reform UK manifesto launch for the Senedd elections in May, at the International Convention Centre Wales in Newport, March 5, 2026

REFORM’S Welsh manifesto is an “all-out attack” on the country’s public-sector workers, the environment and cultural heritage, a union leader said today.

Prospect general secretary Mike Clancy warned the party’s “fantastical” claim that they can achieve large cuts without affecting front-line services threatened to make Wales a “testing ground for the importation of hard-line Trumpian politics in Britain.”

“This is a manifesto that prioritises hard-line ideology over evidence and expertise, promising to overrule the scientific consensus on clean energy and ignore experts by imposing their own version of history Welsh museums,” he added.

A heckler interrupted Reform leader Nigel Farage at his party’s manifesto launch at Newport’s International Convention Centre on Thursday.

The Green Deal Rising activist said: “How can you say you stand with working people when you consistently vote against workers’ rights?”

He replied: “Oh, sorry darling, you having a rough morning? Did you get out the wrong side of the bed?”

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