Nigel Farage expects assembly election 'breakthrough' for UKIP

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said he is optimistic his party would "make a breakthrough" in the Welsh assembly election.

With elections in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and London amongst the polls taking place on 5 May, he told the party's conference in Llandudno UKIP faced a "vast organisational task".

"But I'm pretty optimistic, I'm certainly optimistic here in Wales, that we're going to do very well and make a breakthrough," Mr Farage said.

"We will once again do what we did in the general election, we will surprise the commentators by just how many votes we take from the Labour Party."