A POLITICAL party has tightened security at its border base after a senior member and campaigner were told they 'wanted shooting' by an angry man miming gun actions.

Liberal Democrats Welsh Assembly member Kirsty Williams was accompanying the party's Brecon and Radnor parliamentary candidate James Gibson-Watt in Presteigne last week when the incident took place.

"We were walking into a housing estate when a van pulled up and a guy started shouting something," said campaign volunteer Megan Lloyd who was with the pair when the incident happened.

"He said something like 'you Liberals you all want shooting' he looked at each of us and then mimed a shooting action. It was quite intimidating, the man was very aggressive in his manner and was obviously very angry over goodness knows what really.

"It was quite unnerving to have that level of anger from somebody.

"Presteigne is a lovely place, this happened when we first arrived and afterwards we went around the doors without incident."

Mrs Williams has also commented on having people hanging around outside her home and a Conservative board placed in her garden hedge.

This has led to extra security being put in place at the party's Brecon base.

"A combination of things have led to this and politicians feel more vulnerable following the Jo Cox shooting," added Ms Lloyd.

"This has led to us reviewing security at our Brecon & Radnor base which has been increased on advise from the Welsh Assembly,"

Cllr Gibson-Watt who represents the Glasbury ward on Powys County Council and lives just outside Hay-on-Wye with his family said that these sort of views have surfaced following the Brexit vote.

He added: "People are taking polarized positions following the referendum which are now being exposed.

"We didn't realise these were there, they had been hidden under the surface and are now bubbling up. It will be down to the politicians in the next few years to amend those views. "To be frank how the current government is going about things is not helping.

"With this extreme sort of Brexit a lot of people have raised expectations of what they want and expect to get and if they don't achieve that it will produce even more anger."