Nigel Farage is very bullish about Reform’s prospects for the local elections. “Look how badly they’re being run now. It’d be very hard to do worse,” he said, adding: “We are saying local government is broken and we’re going to fix it.”
The local elections on May 1 look set to be a defining moment for Reform UK and for Farage himself. He told the Telegraph that he currently has a 35% to 45% chance of becoming the next PM.
He also just posted he was “eating the Tories for breakfast.”
Nigel Farage recently said the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Reform UK leader claimed “three quarters of the country would cheer to the rafters”, suggesting that leaving the ECHR would allow ministers to take action which would cut illegal migration.
“Well, the first thing we have to do, is we have to get rid of the ECHR,” he said, when asked if he’d immediately seek to repeal any laws upon entering Number 10.
“We have to get back the ability to decide, can we really control our borders? Who comes and lives here?… You know what? I think three quarters of the country would cheer to the rafters.”
Unrecognisable
Nigel Farage warned: “I’m very concerned that we have whole areas of our towns and cities that are unrecognisable as being English, but they’re not unrecognisable as being English because of skin colour. They’re unrecognisable because of culture.”
In response Starmer said: “That flag doesn’t belong to me as Prime Minister, it doesn’t belong to my party, the Labour Party, or to any group or political party.
“It belongs to all of us, to England in all of its wonderful diversity. And we should be proud of that flag and we must never concede it because it’s an expression of our values and our patriotism.”
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