Reform’s only Senedd member faces a two-week suspension over offensive comments she made in a WhatsApp chat.
In August 2023 Laura Anne Jones used a racial slur to describe Chinese people. She has since apologised.
Recommending the sanction, in a report leaked to BBC Wales, the Senedd’s standards committee said “inappropriate and offensive comments have no place in our Senedd or society more widely”.
Jones was cleared of complaints relating to making false expenses claims and unfair dismissal. A Reform spokesman said Jones would respond when the report is officially published.
The Senedd’s standards committee has made its recommendation of a two-week suspension following a lengthy investigation by the Senedd’s standards commissioner, Douglas Bain.
He was asked to consider three sets of allegations against Laura Anne Jones, including a complaint that she had made a racist comment and failed to address discriminatory behaviour.
Jones, who represents South Wales East in Cardiff Bay, was a Conservative Member of the Senedd (MS) at the time of the allegations.
