# Reform could try to remove Senedd presiding officer over member’s speaking ban

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/reform-could-try-to-remove-senedd-presiding-officer-over-members-speaking-ban/
- Published: 2026-11-13T12:41:03+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T14:52:42+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC Politics (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crq5ve0l0416o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Elections, Politics

## Key points

- Reform may seek a no-confidence vote against the Senedd presiding officer.
- Joe Martin was barred from speaking until he apologises.
- Reform says Martin raised concerns about demographic change.

## Summary

Reform UK says it may seek a vote of no confidence in Senedd presiding officer Huw Irranca-Davies after he barred party member Joe Martin from speaking until he apologises for remarks about white people being “replaced”. The dispute has led Reform to withdraw from most Senedd proceedings, raising questions about parliamentary rules, members’ freedom to speak and the handling of discriminatory language.

Martin asked the Welsh Government for a statement on what he called the “demographic replacement of white British people”, claiming that mass immigration and different birth rates would make white people a minority in 2063. Irranca-Davies described the remarks as deliberately offensive and discriminatory; Race Equality First said the “replacement” claim is linked to a conspiracy theory that portrays minority ethnic groups as a threat. Reform chief whip Llŷr Powell defended Martin’s remarks as a question about demographic data, while saying a no-confidence vote was “not off the table”.

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