Nigel Farage is promising to reopen coal mines in Wales to help boost domestic steel-making as Reform UK sets its sights on next year’s Welsh Parliament elections.
The Reform leader is delivering a speech in Port Talbot in which he will vow to revive the town’s blast furnaces.
Mr Farage is placing the return of traditional steel-making in south Wales at the heart of his 2026 Senedd campaign.
He will say that if Reform wins power it would allow Welsh coal mines to reopen so that the fuel could be used by the plant at Port Talbot, replacing foreign imports.
The steel-making promise represents the latest attempt by Mr Farage to outflank Labour on the Left.
