Farage says next May’s elections will be a two horse race between Reform and Plaid.

He says a Reform government in the Senedd would:

– And the 20mph speed limit

– Abolish city of sanctuary status for refugees and put Welsh people first

He warns they would face “a whole mass of problems, and it won’t be easy, and we won’t be able to do it overnight”.

“We will be the party of change.”

He predicts Reform will do “phenomenomaly well”

Nigel Farage says Plaid Cymru has got away for too long coming across as nice and cuddly.

But says they’re a genuinly ‘Hard left’ party, stuffed full of people who appear to care more about Gaza than the Welsh people.

“They believe that Wales should be a country of sanctuary, refugees welcome here say Plaid – unless of course you come from Israel and then they’re firmly against you.

“They’re the kind of people we’re dealing with with Plaid.

“There is also a very nasty anti-English streak among many of their activists which is not only very unpleasant but is self-defeating for Wales.

He slaps down their claims they are the party of change, after propping up Welsh Labour for years.

Farage tears into the Welsh Government’s sustainable farming scheme, which he accuses Labour of blackmailing farmers into joining, which tells them to plant trees instead of making food for Britons.

He describes it as “utter nonsense” which compounds the attack on farmers from Rachel Reeves.

“People in Cardiff Bay, the Labour party and propped up by Plaid in too many cases, want to put Welsh farmers through a bureaucratic hell and stop them doing what they’ve always done.

“And if we win the elections next May we will get rid!”

He tears up a leaflet explaining the scheme.

Nigel Farage damns the Tory Party chairman, who last night posted on X comparing Reform to the Nazis.

“Not only is it insulting and wrong, but it’s actually inciteful and dangerous given the world we live in.

“Just think that’s exactly what they were saying about Charlie Kirk in the US.

“Shame on him!”

He adds that the Tories have irrevocably lost public trust. “I think their 200 year old journey has come to an end… We are the opposition now.”

Nigel Farage is addressing Nathan Gill, the brief former Reform leader in Wales.

He was convicted to over 10 years in prison last week for taking bribes from pro-Putin sources for questions and speeches in the EU parliament as a UKIP and Brexit Party MEP.

Mr Farage says: “The fact he has taken money, taken bribes, to ask questions is of course an absolute and total disgrace, and we disown his actions and disown what he’s done in every single way. I’m not afraid to stand up and say that because it is the truth.

“Being honest is the right approach. But think about this – ok we’ve found somebody who was in the European Parliament for previous parties that was corrupt. That in of itself in British politics is not exactly unique.

“And think about this – this government, one of their MPs has taken £500,000 in payment to his office from someone that we now know is a Chinese spy.

“Think of this – we’re about to approve the new mega embassy for China to be built on the site of the old Royal Mint on Tower Hill.

“Those two spies in China, and charges against them suddenly were mysteriously dropped.

“If I’ve had a problem with one corrupt individual, we as a country have a problem with a government that appears to be in hock to the Chinese Communist Party, and that is against our interests and ought to be investigated and brought out into the open.”

Nigel Farage says Keir Starmer ‘appears to be obsessed with me!’.

“Every PMQs all he can do is hurl abuse, and this is because never before has a government with a big majority collapsed in public opinion and public trust as quickly as Starmer’s government.

“He doesn’t believe in a single thing. He’s a man without principles, he is not a leader, he is bad for Britain.

“But the good news is he won’t be long for the job!”

Farage warns that the exodus of taxpayers from the country will continue under Labour, after stats showed it coming to 270,000 in Reeves’ first year in No11.

“They left because taxes are too high, because laws have changed, but they left because if you’re young and want to set up a business and work hard and do well, Portugal, Italy, Greece, the UAE, Dubai, Australia, America, these are now more tempting places for our brightest and best young people to go.

“It is a tragedy for our country that huge numbers of young bright intelligent people are leaving.

“If our rich people leave, they’re also our biggest taxpayers. And if our biggest taxpayers leave that means that everybody else earning average incomes has to pay more.

“And no party has the guts or courage to stand up and say that… I fear that after Thursday that exodus will get bigger.

“When we’re in government we will make sure that the people who pay the most tax come back to Britain and pay tax into this country, benefiting us and benefiting ordinary workers.”

Nigel Farage says what we do know about the Budget is “it will be an attack on people that work hard. An attack on people who do well.

“An attack on those who have got big houses or money, and actually an attack on the very idea of young people going out into the world and working hard and doing well.”

Farage is on stage. He boasts about filling a venue for a rally on a Monday night, something he says other parties couldn’t do.

He says “Rachel from Accounts” will be up on Wednesday delivering her Budget.

“I cannot think of a Chancellor of the Exchequer in my lifetime more completely hopelessly out of their depths.”

“Governments and political parties should listen, they should learn and they should lead.

“Labour don’t listen, they lecture. The Conservatives don’t learn, and therefore they don’t lead anymore.

“But we in Reform intend to listen, learn and lead, and represent the genuine and heartfelt concerns of the Welsh people in Cardiff Bay.”

Former Cabinet minister David Jones, who defected from the Tories to Reform some months ago, is next up on stage.

He explains the thing that upset him with the previous government more than anything else was Rishi Sunak’s ‘Windsor Framework’, which created a border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Britain.

He says it’s something “no UK government should have ever done”.

He says: “I can tell you now I know that I did the right thing [by defecting]”

Laura Anne Jones says Reform is rising “not because people are angry, but because they are hopeful”.

She insists: “We get it, and they see that.”

Laura Anne Jones MS says Nigel Farage has inspired millions “by refusing to play along with a broken political system”, and that the movement is “stronger because of your leadership.”

She says the Senedd elections “will be an historic one”

“Let me tell you this – all of us are determined to topple the smug, incompetent Welsh government.

“And I promise you this, we are determined to turn around the failing fortunes of this proud nation.”

David Bull highlights recent polling, which suggests Reform is now first in Wales on 29%.

“I think you’ll agree that’s pretty unbelievable.”

Plaid is in second at 23%, Labour third on 18%, the Tories on 11%.

He says it’s a two-horse race between Reform and Plaid.

David Bull condemns the Welsh Government’s ‘Nation of sanctuary’ status for refugees and asylum seekers.

“The government of Wales sees a country without borders, where anyone can come here unfettered.

“The Welsh government is throwing money at health and education for refugees and asylum seekers, while indigenous Welsh people are at the bottom of the pile.”

He promises that a Reform UK-led Senedd will abolish this.

David Bull says Welsh people are waiting with bated breath for the “car crash of a Budget” Rachel Reeves is planning to “unleash on us” this week.

He says: “This is a government of vandals, and Rachel Reeves is its wrecker in chief. The Budget on Wednesday is going to be an utter abomination. Another step in the ruination of Britain.

“It will be, quite frankly, a naked attack on the strivers, the doers, and the risk takers.

“And actually Reeves is about to clobber the hardest working in our society.”

Chairman David Bull is up kicking off tonight’s Reform UK rally.

He slams the “shameful record” of the government in Cardiff.

Nigel Farage has posted this funny picture from a pub ahead of tonight’s rally

We originally believed Nigel Farage’s rally would be kicking off at 4:40pm (according to the Press Association).

He’s actually set to speak around 7pm.

I love fish, I love all animals, but Hinkley Point C £700m was spent on the whole fish protection programme, which works out at £280k per fish.

“So when we talk about tough decisions needing to be made and there not being enough money for British pensioners to heat their homes, forget about which humans in society need to pay the consequences of that, it’s currently fish or newts or bats have superior rights, frankly, to many humans in this country.

“That’s the sad fact.”

Zia Yusuf says major global investors, including countries with huge sovereign wealth funds with serious capital to allocate, consider Britain currently uninvestable.

“They consider our political class to be a shambles, they consider them to be a joke…

“When I speak to people trying to build anything in this country, most of my time is not spent on working out which laws to pass it’s spent working out which laws we need to delete from the statute books. Which quangos we need to rein in because they’ve basically become activists to stop anything being built.”

Zia Yusuf says a Reform government has to get “GDP per capita motoring again”, and says the “only way to do that is with a total and hard reset of the culture in Westminster”.

“To do that you need a new start-up insurgent party.”

While we wait for Nigel Farage to speak in North Wales, Reform’s head of policy Zia Yusuf is addressing the CBI for the first time.

He says the single biggest issue for businesses are the cost of energy, which is seeing firms pay 2/3x more than their American or Chinese counterparts.

He also says the government must end the hostility towards those who invest in things and create jobs.

Mr Yusuf says Reform politicians understand job creation better than other parties.