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The question of who leads Reform UK into next year's Senedd election has been dismissed as a "distraction" by the man handling the party's communications in Wales.
Llyr Powell said Nigel Farage was party leader and "at the moment, there's no one we're going to appoint as the leader of the party [in Wales]".
Powell was speaking after Reform won its first Parliamentary by-election, taking the north west of England seat of Runcorn and Helsby from Labour, and its first mayoral election, in Greater Lincolnshire.
Reform hopes to win its first Senedd seats next May. Recent polls suggest support for the party is closely behind Labour and neck-and-neck with Plaid Cymru.
