Nigel Farage has sworn he will never work with the “dishonest” Conservatives and slammed the idea of “uniting the right”.
Speaking to GB News’ Christopher Hope at Reform’s South East Conference, Farage said that his party would not join up with Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives, dubbing them a “dying party”.
Recent opinion polling has put Reform UK at 25 points – joint first with Labour. The Tories came five points behind in the survey conducted by Find Out Now.
Asked by Hope if Reform would be willing to do a deal with the Conservatives, Farage laughed.
Asked by Hope if Reform UK would be willing to do a deal with the Conservatives, Farage laughed
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“Chris, you’ve been around too long. The Tory party is dying. And the only people that can’t see it are those in Westminster. Because things are as they’ve always been. Get out into the country. The party is dying.
“We’ve not reached the floor for the Conservative Party by a very, very long way. I’m obviously delighted that we’ve made that breakout moment. They’ll be now showing ahead of them in the polls. And I reckon that gap will continue to widen.
“And I wouldn’t do a deal with people that have been so dishonest so often with the electorate this year.”
In a giant leap towards breaking Britain’s two-party political system, Reform soared past the Conservative Party’s membership figures at the end of last year.
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The populist party, which is setting its sights on sending Farage to No10 in 2029, confirmed on Boxing Day that its total membership has soared past the Conservative Party’s – which stands at 131,680 as of November 2024.
Reform UK’s current membership stands at almost 180,000 as of January 10, 2025.
Badenoch quickly accused Farage of “manipulation” by ticking the tally up with “fake” numbers.
He fired back stating he was “not going to take this lying down”, demanding an apology.
Badenoch quickly accused Farage of ‘manipulation’ by ticking the tally up with “fake” numbers
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Nigel Farage shows off the live Reform membership ticker to the crowd at a Reform UK conference last week
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Last week, Farage threatened to take Reform UK’s fight to Badenoch by making her constituency a “target” at the next General Election.
Speaking at the first of Reform’s regional conferences in 2025 in Leicester last Friday, Farage promised to host a large-scale party event in Badenoch’s North West Essex constituency at the end of the month.
He said: “You had your chance to apologise – well, now, the gloves are off.”
The party only had 40,000 members ahead of Farage’s comeback as leader in June 2024, with the Clacton MP’s return handing the right-wing party an exponential growth rate of 300 per cent in just eight months.
The return of Farage gave Reform UK an almost immediate 25,000 boost, with the total membership figure hitting 75,000 in August 2024.
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