Ex-Reform UK leader in Wales jailed for more than ten years over bribes for pro-Russia speeches

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "He asked that Mr Gill book a room, he asked that he invite colleagues from the Brexit Party to attend," said Mr Heywood.
56% : Following the 2019 European Elections, Voloshyn asked Gill to arrange for Brexit Party colleagues to attend a presentation by Medvedchuk on the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region.
53% : He left UKIP in December 2018 to join Farage's newly-created Brexit Party, becoming the leader in Wales, and he continued to hold the post when it morphed into Reform UK.
52% : He said it came at a "febrile" time in post Brexit vote politics, while his continuing position in the European Parliament was "tolerated rather than welcomed", and his euro-sceptic views were attracting significant interest.
46% : He held the seat for the next six years, ending with Brexit and the UK's departure from the European Union in January 2020.
43% : Gill, a close political ally of Farage through the Brexit years, pleaded guilty to eight charges of bribery between December 6 2018 and July 18 2019.

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