Nigel Farage accused of 'lecturing Wales' as First Minister tears into plan to reopen blast furnaces: 'Absolute nonsense!'

Addressing Wales, Farage declared: "I'm not saying let's open all the pits, there are certain types of coal for certain types of uses, for the blast furnaces, we can use here."

Speaking to GB News following the announcement, Morgan branded the plan "absolute nonsense".

Morgan fumed: "First of all, it's interesting he found his way to Wales, it was unbelievable. This is a man who's got no interest in the country whatsoever, he just wants to make a political point on the UK scene.

"The key thing to remember is that this is a man who flew in from Los Angeles at some very high-level cryptocurrency meeting to go and lecture people in Port Talbot about poverty and what he wants to do to relieve it."

In a scathing attack on Farage, Morgan claimed: "This is a person who doesn't understand Wales. He doesn't understand the needs of Wales, and what he wasn't talking about today was the NHS, the NHS that he wants to dismantle.

"He wants to introduce an insurance policy for people in Wales who will not be able to afford."

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As GB News host Tom Harwood argued that Farage "doesn't want people to pay" for his new system of the NHS, Tom pressed Morgan for her verdict on the plans to reopen Port Talbot and some other blast furnaces.

Morgan told the People's Channel: "It was absolute nonsense. What he was talking about today was reopening blast furnaces.

"Now, anybody who understands anything about steel knows that that would take a revolution and vast, vast, vast amounts of money, so you've got to be really careful with this stuff. I'm not sure if the people in Wales want to see their grandchildren going back down the pits."

Hitting out at Farage's stance on workers' rights, Morgan claimed that the people of Wales are more interested in "high-quality jobs" than the reopening of the furnaces.

Morgan said: "You might want to try and appeal to those people, but the fact is that people in Wales are now interested in making sure that there are high-quality jobs, and that's what we've been delivering in Wales.

"The fact is that the people who work in those jobs, if Nigel Farage had his way, would not have the kind of rights that we believe in in the Labour Party, because he's voted against workers' rights time and time again in Westminster."

When questioned by GB News reporter Adam Cherry on his plans, Farage admitted that it would cost "billions" to reopen the furnaces.

Farage stated: "I made it very, very clear. Reopening a blast furnace is no easy thing. This one has closed, that was the tragedy.

"Yes, it is a massive, expensive job to re-open blast furnaces, and yes, it is going to cost billions to do it."