Bronwen Weatherby

Young woman heckles Farage before she’s shouted down and escorted out of the room.

Farage brings up Nathan Gill, Reforms former leader in Wales, who is in prison for spying for Russia… as he attacks Labour over three former special advisors being arrested yesterday for spying for the Chinese

Here at the Reform Wales manifesto launch in Newport where we’re due to hear from Nigel Farage and Welsh leader Dan Thomas.

Accuses Starmer of ‘humiliating’ Britain

Farage kicks off by addressing international affairs - defending the war in Iran. Says Iran is different to previous wars in the Middle East. Says all previous governments has ‘appeased Iran’ “If this stops Iran from getting a nuclear bomb it will have been worth it”

Reform’s ’Welsh Manifesto’:

The auditorium is packed now - reform bods scrabbling around for more seats as people had resorted to lining the walls to watch Farage. All bums are now on seats.

David James Taylor was also a spad to a number of high-profile figures including former Wales first ministers Rhodri Morgan and Carwyn Jones.

BREAKING: Labour MP Joani Reid's partner, David Taylor, has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China I’m told Taylor was a special advisor to the former Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain. Hearing those who know him are “shocked”.

WATCH: Members of @SeneddWales will return to the Siambr this afternoon for the first time since it's expansion and makeover ahead of May's election. We've been inside to take a look.

Keir Starmer says Labour government will keep manifesto pledge to pay young people the same minimum wage as older workers - but doesn’t say when that will happen…

Starmer dismisses minimum wage U-turn as PM confirms wage 'will rise' for young people from April ✍️ @DanniDewolfe & @BronWeatherby lbc.co.uk/article/starme…

Starmer dismissed claims he was about to u-turn on his minimum wage pledge for under 21s. “You can reassure young people now… We can absolutely confirm to you will happen” the PM told me lbc.co.uk/article/starme…

A blow for Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar on the eve of his party’s conference in Llandudno: his deputy chief of staff, Zak Weaver, & senior comms officer, Tomos Llewelyn, have both left the Conservatives to work for Reform UK Senedd membersLaura-Anne Jones & James Evans

@ZiaYusufUK @LauraJ4SWEast Laura's own press release said they'd introduce the new legislation within 100 days of a Reform government and with "universities that fail to comply facing financial penalties or the loss of public funding".

@ZiaYusufUK @LauraJ4SWEast The policy announcement said: "Reform will introduce legislation to the Senedd to create the strongest duty anywhere in the UK on higher education providers to protect free speech on campus... Institutions that then continue to curtail open debate... will lose public funding."

The fallout from Reform UK ⁦⁦@ZiaYusufUK⁩’s threats towards Bangor Uni continues. Members have distanced themselves from his comments but back a pledge to strip unis of funding if found not to be following Reform’s free speech laws. ⁦ ⁦⁦@LauraJ4SWEast⁩

EXCL: Wales’ FM Eluned Morgan says she hopes for a ‘culture change’ at No.10 after Mandelson scandal: