00:00The race to be the biggest party in the Senate at next year's elections is already well underway,
00:07and parties are doing what they can to score the necessary political points early doors to try and pull away.
00:13Official campaigning hasn't started, but clearly parties are trying to get ahead of the issue,
00:18and one poignant factor that could affect voters is poor Talbot Steelworks that partly closed last year.
00:24The Welsh Government said it was destined to close down despite efforts to negotiate with the site's owners, Tata.
00:31Reform were the latest party to weigh in, and have said that on a visit to poor Talbot,
00:35if Nigel Farage's party was elected as the biggest in the Senate next year,
00:40then he would bring back the blast furnaces to Wales, and allow mining coal to use at the site.
00:45According to the First Minister, the policy is nonsense, as it seems the ship has sailed on the future of the blast furnaces,
00:51which are unusable after they were turned off.
00:54Farage told BBC Wales that reopening it would be impossible, and would have to build new ones, costing in the low billions.
01:02UK Labour did little to help their Welsh counterparts in the argument earlier on this year,
01:07when they rushed to nationalise a similar site in Scunthorpe, which faced thousands of job losses.
01:12But Plaid Cymru's proposition of nationalising poor Talbot was laughed at by Welsh Labour counterparts.
01:19Plaid argue this shows a lack of fairness in Wales' treatment compared to England,
01:23and in such a poignant topic of steelworking, the issue could become a big factor in next year's Senate elections.
01:30At the moment, Reform, Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour are fighting for top spot,
01:34with Plaid ahead in the most recent polls, but with almost a full calendar year to go,
01:39expect plenty of movement before then.
01:41James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:43James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:44James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:45James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:46James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:47James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:48James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:49James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:50James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:51James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:52James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:53James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:54James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:55James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:56James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:57James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
01:58James Peach Watkins, Porton for Local TV.
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