UKIP 'needs good candidates from Wales' for assembly poll

Former UKIP election candidates have said allowing high profile figures from outside Wales to apply to stand in the 2016 assembly election will put off voters.

Ex-MPs Mark Reckless and Neil Hamilton, and Nigel Farage's head of media Alexandra Phillips, are all applying to stand as regional list candidates.

UKIP said it wanted the "best quality of representation possible" for Wales and had a rigorous process for selecting regional candidates.

But Ken Beswick, who stood for UKIP in Torfaen at the general election, said local candidates would go down better.