BNP leader Nick Griffin is trying to boost his party’s prospects in Wales by standing in May’s Assembly election.

The far-right party said it was fielding candidates in each of the five proportional representation regions. Mr Griffin, who lives in mid Wales, is taking the number two slot on the BNP’s south west Wales regional list.

Plaid Cymru’s Swansea West candidate Ian Titherington said: “The BNP and their leader have no hope of being elected in May. Their strategy is to raise their profile before the Welsh council elections in 2008.

A BNP spokesman said: “Five years ago we virtually had no presence in Wales, now we have got 20 candidates.”

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