Senedd politician Laura Anne Jones has defected from the Conservatives to Reform, Nigel Farage has announced.
Jones becomes the party’s first Member of the Senedd. Her defection was announced at the Royal Welsh Show.
She said she could no longer justify Conservative policies on the doorstep.
Her defection means the Conservatives are down to 14 politicians in the Welsh Parliament.
Speaking at the Royal Welsh Show, she said: “I’ve just suddenly felt that the Conservative Party was unrecognisable to me. It wasn’t the party that I joined over three decades ago.”
She said Reform “is listening to the people of Great Britain”.