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However, she said that organisations should be able to decide what their staff wear and that she asked people coming to her constituency surgeries to remove face coverings "whether it's a burka or a balaclava".

Sinn Féín said staff are employed by MLAs to "pursue their priorities for constituency and assembly business", and "these priorities may legitimately be influenced by their own political perspective".

While Reform did not win any Welsh seats in last year's general election, it did come second in 13 of the 32 constituencies.

In US politics, "pork" refers to spending on projects in lawmakers' constituencies.

Their billboards in the constituency still make that claim.