Glyn Davies is unhappy about the current state of the party

Most of the platform speakers at Cardiff's City Hall concentrated on attacking the government in Westminster and Wales.

But several senior party figures warned fellow Tories that they must pull together.

The most outspoken comments came from Glyn Davies, the Welsh Assembly Member who chairs the agriculture and rural affairs committee.

Mr Davies said he was "not satisfied with the current state of the Conservative party".

The conference is being held at Cardiff's City Hall

The Mid and West Wales AM said he was not happy to have no Welsh MPs and only nine AMs.

"I am not at all happy to see leading figures of our party squabbling with each other in public," added Mr Davies.

This was greeted with applause from delegates.

These comments were made after continued infighting among critics and supporters of the party leader Iain Duncan Smith, who is due to address the conference on Saturday.

Mr Davies said Conservatives had to "fight like a cat in a corner to win new voters".

He said it was not enough for politicians to "talk among ourselves".

Labour attacked

Nigel Evans, the shadow Welsh Secretary, made only a passing comment about the state of the party.

But he said the Conservatives were the only party that would make a difference in the assembly.

It appears this Labour government is hell bent on destroying Welsh agriculture Brynle Williams, Election candidate

"Only if we are united, will we be able to get that message across," he said.

There were similar words from Carole Hyde, the Welsh party chairman.

"If we remember that the enemy is in other parties and not within, we can win," she said.

Nigel Evans strongly attacked the record of Labour in Westminster, and the Labour/Lib Dem coalition in Cardiff Bay.

He said those who concerned about asylum seekers were not racists, but realists.

He said it was ridiculous, for instance, to grant asylum to former Taleban fighters.

Resignation called

Mr Evans also attacked the assembly government's performance on hospital waiting lists

It was a scandal, he said, that there were more bureaucrats in the NHS.

"It's like an episode of Yes Minister, except this is no laughing matter," he said.

Brynle Williams is standing in the assembly elections in May

Mr Evans called on the Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, to resign if he could not devote his whole time to the job.

He criticised Mr Hain for his dual role as Minister for Europe.

The conference also heard from Brynle Williams, the party's assembly candidate for Clwyd West, who also led the fuel blockade protests in 2000.

Mr Williams claimed at least 11 tonnes of illegal "bush meats" from animals such as rats, zebra and antelope was coming into Britain every day.

He said this was effectively allowing biological weapons to enter the country.

"It appears this Labour government is hell bent on destroying Welsh agriculture," said Mr Williams.

Party leader Iain Duncan Smith, party chairman Theresa May and Welsh leader Nick Bourne will address the conference on Saturday.