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Reform UK chief Nigel Farage has forecast Donald Trump will win the US presidential election, as his Reform UK celebration sought to play up its hyperlinks with the Republican candidate.
The celebration chief claimed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris had a “historical past of being a part of the unconventional left”, and sought to attract a comparability with Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Occasion.
Earlier, he admitted “amateurism” let down the celebration on the basic election.
He advised the celebration’s convention in Birmingham: “At that stage of our growth, we weren’t sufficiently big, rich sufficient, skilled sufficient to vet basic election candidates correctly, and that amateurism allow us to down.”
Mr Farage stated having Zia Yusuf as the brand new Reform chairman had already made “an enormous distinction” in making Reform extra skilled, promising that in future, Reform will vet candidates rigorously in any respect ranges.
He insisted he didn’t “give a rattling” who the following Conservative Occasion chief is as a result of “the model is bust”.
In the meantime, a brand new YouGov ballot has discovered most Britons have a damaging view of Reform UK.
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Jane Dalton20 September 2024 22:25
Farage predicts Trump will likely be subsequent US president
Donald Trump will win the US presidential election, Nigel Farage has claimed as his Reform UK celebration sought to play up its hyperlinks with the Republican candidate.
The Reform chief had phrases of warning for International Secretary David Lammy – who as soon as described former president Mr Trump as a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” – a couple of potential second Trump presidency.
He additionally claimed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris had a “historical past of being a part of the unconventional left”, and sought to attract a comparability with Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Occasion.
The Clacton MP was resulting from be part of Mr Trump’s marketing campaign over the summer season, earlier than asserting his intention to face for Parliament and take over the management of Reform.
On the Reform convention, following his stump speech, Mr Farage stated: “The truth that we now have a Labour Authorities with an enormous majority who’re going to be there for a number of years, the truth that the International Secretary has stated some fairly disagreeable issues about Donald Trump, if Trump wins, that doesn’t put us in a fantastic place.”
Jane Dalton20 September 2024 21:58
Ties and caps offered at Reform convention made in China and Bangladesh
The Reform UK merchandise stand at their Birmingham convention is providing a variety of things on the market – from ties signed by Richard Tice to caps emblazoned with “Let’s Save Britain”. The caps – manufactured in China – are on sale for £20.
Jane Dalton20 September 2024 21:25
Tice claims ‘world could be safer’ if Trump received US election
Reform UK deputy chief Richard Tice stated chief Nigel Farage’s relationship with former US president Donald Trump was “to the good thing about this nation”.
Mr Farage has visited the US thrice since being elected because the MP for Clacton, together with attending the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee.
Mr Tice stated that “as a frontrunner of a celebration that’s now turning into mainstream, worldwide affairs, our relationship with our most vital, strategic worldwide associate – the US – is essential and the world will likely be a safer place if Donald Trump wins the presidential election”.
Jane Dalton20 September 2024 20:30
Reform will vet candidates rigorously, vows Farage
Nigel Farage has promised that Reform UK will “be vetting candidates rigorously in any respect ranges” in future as he delivered his keynote speech to the celebration’s convention in Birmingham.
Mr Farage stated the celebration had no “time or room” for “a number of extremists to wreck the work of a celebration that now has 80,000 members”.
Reform UK reportedly needed to take away greater than 100 basic election candidates because the begin of the yr, greater than a dozen of whom had been sacked after offensive and racist feedback had been revealed.
They included these three, suspended over their remarks:
Jane Dalton20 September 2024 19:35
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Jane Dalton20 September 2024 18:50
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Jane Dalton20 September 2024 18:13
Tory model is bust, Farage claims
Nigel Farage claimed he doesn’t “give a rattling” who the following Conservative Occasion chief is as a result of “the model is bust“.
The Reform UK chief attacked every of the candidates within the working to exchange Rishi Sunak personally, saying one has “probably the most inappropriate surname I’ve ever come throughout in my life which signifies an IQ moderately greater than I feel they’ve” and one other “lacks any discernible character”.
One believes working in McDonald’s “for every week makes them working class” whereas one other is campaigning as a Liberal Democrat, he claimed.
“And the reality is, I don’t give a rattling who the following chief of the Conservative Occasion is. I actually don’t. It doesn’t matter who leads them, the model is bust.”
Jane Dalton20 September 2024 17:33
Farage manufacturers Starmer’s management ‘actually surprising’
Nigel Farage has described the primary months of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership as “actually surprising” in his Reform UK convention keynote speech.
The celebration chief stated: “As for Labour, I imply, goodness me. Have you ever ever identified a brand new Prime Minister get off to a worse begin than Keir Starmer?”
Delegates within the crowd replied: “No”
Mr Farage added: “It’s actually surprising. I imply, the message of ‘issues can solely worsen’ is hardly inspiring, is it?
“And now we’re residing in a state, and also you all comprehend it, however they’ll deny it in Westminster till the cows come dwelling, we’re residing in a state with two-tier policing.
“We’re residing in a state with two-tier justice. We’re residing in a state that’s led by two-tier Keir and we’ve had sufficient already.”
Jane Dalton20 September 2024 17:07
Farage says the Conservative model is ‘bust’
Nigel Farage claimed he doesn’t “give a rattling” who the following Conservative Occasion chief is as a result of “the model is bust”.
The Reform UK chief attacked every of the candidates within the working to exchange Rishi Sunak personally, saying one has “probably the most inappropriate surname I’ve ever come throughout in my life which signifies an IQ moderately greater than I feel they’ve” and one other “lacks any discernible character”.
One believes working in McDonald’s “for every week makes them working class” whereas one other is campaigning as a Liberal Democrat, he claimed.
“And the reality is, I don’t give a rattling who the following chief of the Conservative Occasion is. I actually don’t.
“It doesn’t matter who leads them, the model is bust.”
Jabed Ahmed20 September 2024 17:05