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Farage ‘an idiot’ over plans for blast furnaces
Western Mail
|July 11, 2025
FIRST Minister Eluned Morgan said Nigel Farage is an “idiot” for suggesting that the blast furnaces at Tata's Port Talbot plant could be reopened.
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The Reform UK leader visited Port Talbot last month and announced his first Welsh-specific policies. One was looking at the reopening of some mines, the other was to reopen the blast furnaces at Port Talbot. That was something experts and even Mr Farage himself - said would cost billions of pounds because once the blast furnaces were turned off last year, it is all but impossible to turn them back on.
The First Minister was being interviewed by Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby as part of the Electoral Dysfunction podcast.
This story is from the July 11, 2025 edition of Western Mail.
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