A mother who made headlines after attacking Reform’s immigration stance at last year’s Caerphilly Senedd by-election TV debate has been announced as a Plaid Cymru candidate.

Last October, Alison Vyas told Reform candidate Llyr Powell her family “had never felt so unwelcome” in Caerphilly until his party began campaigning for the vacant Senedd seat.

On January 5, Plaid announced she would stand for the Porset ward on Van Community Council if a by-election is called there.

Describing her as a “proud Valleys woman raised in Lansbury Park”, the party said Mrs Vyas “stands with Plaid Cymru because decisions about our communities should be made here in Wales, by people who care”.

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