Welsh Conservatives: Andrew RT Davies ‘doesn’t feel threatened’

Some members of the Conservative Senedd group have expressed concerns privately about Mr Davies’s social media posts.

One said they were becoming increasingly “difficult to defend” and if things continued as they were then his position would be “untenable” and he could face a leadership challenge.

In a separate row, Mr Davies was accused of “Islamophobic race-baiting” by the Muslim Council of Wales over a GB News article he wrote.

In it, he said children “should not be forced to eat halal school lunches”, after a constituent alleged she was told non-halal meat was not available at her daughter’s school in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan.

The school said on social media: “The statement that all meat options are halal only is incorrect.”

Mr Davies said allegations of race-baiting were “completely untrue” and his concerns revolved around choice.

Mr Davies has also been criticised by one of his predecessors, Lord Nick Bourne, after a post on social media in which he asked whether the Senedd should be abolished.

He later clarified that abolishing the Welsh Parliament was was neither his nor his party’s position.