There may only be three weeks of election season left but there’s still a new development every day. Now Nigel Farage has made waves on the airwaves this morning in conversation with LBC’s Nick Ferrari. Quizzed about what the future if the opposition could look like, the Reform party leader hinted he was open to a new kind of cross-party working…
‘I’ve intervened,’ he told Ferrari, ‘because we need a coherent voice of opposition in parliament and in the country. Do you know what, Nick? I believe I can do that better than the current Conservative party.’
His interviewer pressed him again:
Ferrari: Can you tell me that one day you might lead the Conservative party or can you rule it out if the ball were to come out of the back of the scrum?
Farage: I think something new is going to emerge on the centre-right. I don’t know what it’s called… But do I think I’m capable of leading a national opposition to a Labour Party with a big majority, where I can stand up and hold them to account on issues? Yes.
Ferrari: Well let’s say it’s called ‘Conform’… So, a merged party, you would be happy to lead a merged party?
Farage: Yes.
Ferrari: Would you be happy to lead the Conservative party?
Farage: Well, not as it currently is. I wouldn’t even… They may be dead. They may well be dead. This may well be the end of their journey… I would be prepared to lead the centre-right in this country.
How very curious. It comes after recent YouGov polling suggests that Farage’s Reform party is only two points behind Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives, while in Wales, Redfield and Wilton revealed the parties were neck and neck. Is a Tory-Reform merger on the cards? Watch this space…
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