Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has unveiled a leader of the party in Wales, plus the defection of a second Member of the Senedd.
Welsh-born former London council leader Dan Thomas has been unveiled by Farage as the leader of Reform UK in Wales ahead of the Senedd election in May.
Mr Thomas, who grew up in Wales, was the Conservative leader of Barnet Council from 2019 to 2022 and joined Reform UK last year.
In December, he quit as a councillor for Finchley Church End after returning to Wales with his family.
Farage also used a press conference in Newport to unveil former Welsh Conservative politician James Evans as the latest defector to Reform UK.
The current Senedd Member for Brecon and Radnorshire was sacked by the Tories last month over suspicions he was planning to defect to Reform.
Darren Millar, leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, dismissed Mr Evans as shadow cabinet secretary for health and social care and withdrew the party whip.
Since then Mr Evans, who was first elected in 2021, has sat as an independent.
Up unitl today, Reform had one Member of the Senedd after former Conservative Laura Anne Jones defected to join the party in July 2025.
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