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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says his party will target traditional Labour seats in Wales in a general election.

He said his party will challenge "in seat after seat" because Labour has "completely abandoned" its Brexit-supporting voters.

Mr Farage said the Brexit Party's comfortable victory in Wales in May's European elections was a "good start".

He was speaking at a Brexit Party rally in Newport on Saturday.

Several speakers at the rally were critical of Boris Johnson's attempt to reach a fresh Brexit deal with the European Union, labelling it "the worst deal in history".

The prime minister is in talks with the EU to remove the controversial "backstop" - an insurance policy to keep an open border on the island of Ireland - from Theresa May's Brexit deal.

Mr Farage said: "If we go down that route, we are in for years and years of acrimony because we won't have left anything."

He told his audience he could not think of a part of the UK "less represented" than Wales, saying only one of the 40 Welsh MPs - Conservative David Jones - had consistently voted against Mrs May's Brexit deal in the House of Commons.

Asked by ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Wales' Sunday Politics programme if his party would be targeting Labour seats in a general election, Mr Farage said: "Absolutely, no question about it.

"We didn't just make a good start in the European elections - looking at polling right now, we are the challengers to Labour here in seat after seat."

In December 2014, when Mr Farage was leading UKIP, he told ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Wales that his party at the time would be targeting seven or eight Welsh seats in a general election.

But in the 2015 election, UKIP failed to make a breakthrough.

Mr Farage said the circumstances had changed, claiming "Labour at that stage hadn't actually directly betrayed their own voters".

"There was a sense and a feeling that a London-led Labour Party was out of touch with its old traditional seats, but now it's there for all to see," he said.

"The Labour Party wants a second referendum, the movement within the party to be all-out Remain is there, and we'll see it at the conference this week," he added.

Sunday Politics Wales is on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One Wales at 10:00 BST on Sunday 22 September.