A Reform politician who was suspended from Wales’ parliament for using a racial slur about Chinese people has denied she is racist.

Laura Anne Jones told BBC Radio Wales that the offensive word she used in a WhatsApp chat “was a term used for a takeaway” during her childhood.

The former Conservative said she was “genuinely sorry” for using the slur in August 2023, had since undergone language training, and vowed not to use the word again.

Members of the Chinese community told the BBC in December that the use of the term had caused “a lot of hurt”.

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Speaking to Radio Wales Breakfast for the first time since her suspension, the MS for South East Wales said: “I shouldn’t have said those words. I didn’t mean anything by it.”

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Last year the Chinese in Wales Association (CIWA) welcomed the action taken by the Senedd, but said the term Jones used carried “deeply hurtful and racist connotations” and it was “deeply disappointing to hear such language from an elected representative.”

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