UKIP disability spokesman Cllr Star Anderton has described the latest policy on Motability cars as “a cynical attempt to buy votes from disabled people.

The government have announced that people can now keep their specially-adapted cars for up to six months if they are denied Personal Independence Payments.

“So many have already lost their motability vehicles and aren’t getting them back,” said Cllr Anderton, who uses an wheelchair adapted vehicle (VAWs).

“Over 800 people every week have lost their enhanced rate PIP mobility component so punishing people then promising something they will never get is a disgrace,” she said.

“We are on our way to freedom from the suffocating grip of the European Union and there has not

 been such a cause for celebration for many a year.

“And it means that EU flags should no longer be flown at public buildings in England and instead the flag of St George should be fluttering in their place.

“I have always believed that England’s patron saint should be properly honoured and I really do think St George’s Day should be declared a Bank Holiday.

“It is something I have long mooted and how fantastic it would be fantastic if it could be brought in to mark the end of our EU membership and the regaining of our independence,” said UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall.

Political correctness or plain incompetence to deal with the problem is leading to a shocking number of girls suffering genital mutilation in Wales, says one of the country’s assembly members. The charge comes as new figures show a new case of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is discovered by maternity staff in Wales every week. The figures have been branded ‘the tip of the iceberg’ by the charity Welsh Women’s Aid, who estimate that 2,000 women in Wales are living with FGM and many more are at risk of suffer the abuse. Although the practice of carrying out FGM has been illegal since 1985, to date there has not been a single prosecution for carrying out the procedure in Wales.

Michelle Brown, UKIP’s Assembly member for North Wales, has previously spoken in the Senedd out about the need for a better strategy for eradicating FGM, she said: “Since my election a year ago, I have raised concerns about the lack of action against this disgusting crime on numerous occasions.

UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall has appointed Patrick O’Flynn MEP as the party’s economic spokesman.

Mr O’Flynn, who served in the same role at the last general election said: “I am delighted and honoured to take charge of UKIP’s economic portfolio again.

“I am greatly looking forward to working with our manifesto team to produce the best economic policies for Britain and another robustly costed manifesto which bears down on public sector waste while finding more money for our priorities such as the NHS and defence.

“I shall also be speaking up against tax rises on working people. It is obvious that Philip Hammond is 

planning to use the election to free himself from promises made in 2015 not to raise tax.

“I have little doubt that he is planning to bring back the national insurance increases for the self-employed t

hat he was previously forced to abandon.”