Dan Thomas has been named Reform UK’s leader in Wales by Nigel Farage, three months before Senedd elections when the hard-right party could win the most seats. Farage introduced Thomas at a sold-out rally of about 1,000 people, where journalists were jeered and booed. Thomas led Barnet council from 2019 to 2022, defected to Reform last summer and stood down as a Finchley Church End councillor to return to his hometown, Blackwood, in south Wales. Farage emphasized Thomas’s experience running budgets and handling opposition. Farage also introduced James Evans as a new Conservative defector. Nathan Gill is in prison for accepting bribes to make pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament.
"Dan Thomas, a former Conservative leader of Barnet council, has been announced by Nigel Farage as Reform UK's leader in Wales, three months before Senedd elections in which the hard-right party could win the most seats in the country. Farage received a standing ovation before he introduced Thomas at a sold-out rally of approximately 1,000 people at the International Convention Centre Wales, near Newport, on Thursday morning."
"Why did I pick Dan? He tells a story of someone who had to go away but loves Wales so much he wants his own children to grow up in a similar environment. And above all, because he's battle hardened Running budgets and facing opposition to development and many other things, and I think Reform UK here in Wales deserves to be led by somebody who's been there before and will keep a calm head through the good and bad."
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