Reform to exploit Labour chaos in Wales as support for Keir Starmer collapses
Support for Labour in Wales has fallen by 20 percent, as Nigel Farage and Reform UK continue to wreak havoc on the establishment parties.
Wales could prove to be a game-changer for Reform UK, as Nigel Farage's party continues to surge in the polls. Mr Farage launched Reform UK's manifesto in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales - a heartland of Labour support - as he piles pressure on the establishment parties.
Reform UK chose Wales as a place to launch the manifesto because it "shows what happens to a party when Labour is in charge". Mr Farage said that Wales had been let down by Labour in a furious attack.
He said: "Schools are worse than in England, NHS waiting lists are longer than in England, Covid restrictions were even tighter than in England and now Welsh motorists are being soaked by literally hundreds of speed cameras to enforce the deeply unpopular new 20mph blanket speed limit in towns and villages.
"So, if you want a picture of what the whole country will be like with a Starmer government and a feeble Conservative opposition, come to Wales and then hear us unveil a better future for all of Britain."
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This comes as Mr Farage's party has soared in the polls among Welsh voters, rising from 6 percent in November last year to 17 percent on June 13.
In the meantime, Labour is haemorrhaging support in Wales, falling from 51 percent at the end of May to 31 percent on June 13, according to the latest YouGov poll.
Less than a fifth (19 percent) of Welsh voters think Sir Keir Starmer cares about Wales. Seven in ten (69 percent) say he doesn’t care much or at all about Wales - a figure which includes those who intend to vote Labour on 4 July.
A majority (57 percent) of the Welsh public think the First Minister of Wales, Labour’s Vaughan Gething, is doing a bad job. Mr Gething remains in office despite losing a vote of no confidence in the Senedd this month.
Reform spokesperson Gawain Towler said Mr Farage's party is targeting "a sweep" of the north-east of Wales, along the border with England and across the south Wales valleys and through to Pembrokeshire.
Welsh Labour were confident that voters would throw Reform UK out of Wales. Jessica Morden, Welsh Labour's campaign chair, called them a "band of chancers seeking to sow division."
She added: "Nigel Farage's brand of divisive politics is not welcome here in Wales. Wales has a proud history of being an inclusive society."
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Nigel Farage launched the Reform UK programme on Monday, which he claimed was a contract with the British public and not a manifesto.
He made several pledges including proposed spending of £141bn a year and leaving the ECHR so that Britain could get to grips with the small boats crisis.
Reform also promised to axe the net zero plan entirely and introduce life imprisonment for convicted drug dealers.
The party leader claimed that Reform’s plans amounted to a “fundamental change” of Britain’s economy and society and that the biggest beneficiaries would be people “trapped on benefits”.
