{"id":409260,"date":"2026-02-05T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:31:08","slug":"reform-uks-welsh-leader-dan-thomas-announced-by-nigel-farage-at-rally-in-newport-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409260\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK&#8217;s Welsh leader Dan Thomas announced by Nigel Farage at rally in Newport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media heckled and booedpublished at 11:10 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:10 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\">David Deans<br \/>BBC Wales politics reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a hostile environment in the room at the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The press conference has been mixed together with a rally, so we are sat among Reform party members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are booing and hissing journalists asking questions. One reporter, Twm Owen from the Local Democracy Reporting Service, was loudly heckled as he questioned the 20mph speed limit pledge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the crowd reacted poorly to simply hearing the words BBC Wales and Walesonline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Evans, the MS who has now joined Reform, was cheered as he attacked the Welsh media generally for being, he claimed, driven by left wing activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Media heckled and booedpublished at 11:10 GMT 11:10 GMT David DeansBBC Wales politics reporter It&#8217;s a hostile environment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-409260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}