Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, stated that the party’s general election campaign was severely impacted by the controversy surrounding several of its candidates. He described some of the candidates as “at best loopy and at worst extremely racist,” and acknowledged that this did “enormous harm” to the party’s chances. Farage estimated that around 20 problematic candidates may have cost the party up to 1.5 million votes, stressing the importance of better candidate selection in the future. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Nigel Farage has described the first months of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership as “truly shocking” in his Reform UK conference keynote speech. Farage said that Starmer’s leadership lacked inspiration, and claimed the UK is facing "two-tier policing" and "two-tier justice" under Labour. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Reform UK has begun its party conference in Birmingham with leader Nigel Farage saying that he is optimistic that the party can win the next general election. Mr Farage said: "We are at a moment in time in politics where levels of disenchantment with the two main parties have never been higher." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of public order offences after objects were thrown at Nigel Farage on the General Election campaign. The Reform UK leader was on top of a party battle..