Farage hits back at Senedd abolition claims

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has rebuffed claims that abolition of the Senedd in Wales is part of his party's upcoming manifesto. "Our aim and ambition is to win those elections next May and make devolution better and you will not hear a word from me about abolishing the assembly or getting rid of the Senedd," Mr Farage said.  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Devolution in Wales was very, very contentious back in the 1990s.

00:04It literally passed by a cigarette paper of 7,000 votes.

00:08There was no widespread, huge public demand.

00:12Only one in four people in Wales voted for it.

00:14That was a quarter of a century ago.

00:16There are some people today who are very disillusioned with devolution.

00:21What they're disillusioned with is the failure of Labour over 26 years.

00:30It makes devolution work.

00:33If you listen very carefully to what Laura Ann said up at our conference at the weekend,

00:39she said, yeah, some people don't like it.

00:41They think it's failing.

00:42Our job, our job, our aim and our ambition is to win those elections next May

00:48and to make devolution work.

00:49And you will not hear a word from me about abolishing the Assembly,

00:53about getting rid of the Senate.

00:55There are one or two voices that still think that.

00:57I think we have to accept the facts of life as they are.

01:00It's happened.

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