NIGEL Farage will offer young people the chance to take up trades such as welding and robotics as part of his re-industrialisation plans.
The Reform UK leader will accuse Labour of forgetting their heartlands by offering a bright future to youths if they gain power.
Farage has vowed to set up regional technical colleges in Wales teaching plumbing, electrical trades and industrial automation in a careers blitz if they win power there next year.
The intervention is part of a major drive to win next year’s elections there as he blames Labour’s “twenty-six years of failure” on a visit there today.
The move comes as the party chief vows to abandon the government’s Net Zero drive if he reaches power by re-opening coal mines.
The party chief intends to give the green light to digging for British coal rather than importing it to help make home-grown steel.
Ministers have set out their plans for not granting any more coal licences insisting that phasing out is crucial to tackling climate change.
But during a major speech today, he will talk about how Wales produced 60 million tons of coal exporting half of it.
He will also hail the country’s heritage, he will address Port Talbot steelworks which were once the largest steel plant in Europe.
The party chief will use a major speech in the Principality setting out his plans to re-industrialise the country in areas betrayed by Labour.
He will take aim at Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘year of failure” since coming to power and saying the game is up for blaming the Tories for the woes of Wales.
Mr Farage will also highlight how de-industrialisation there means GDP per head is £10,000 less than the UK.
