Wales will be UKIP 'springboard' says Nathan Gill

Wales could become the UK Independence Party's strongest UK region, the party's Welsh leader has said.

Nathan Gill also told his party conference in Doncaster that UKIP had matured as a party and would look at May's assembly election with "a fresh pair of eyes".

Opinion polls suggested UKIP could win several seats in the Senedd.

Mr Gill said he was "extremely hopeful" of winning seven or eight assembly seats next May, after UKIP came third in terms of votes in Wales at the general election.