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Nigel Farage compares Reform polling with Donald Trump election victory

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5 months ago

February 1, 2025

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Nigel Farage has compared Reform UK’s rise in the polls, with Donald Trump’s recent election victory in the US.

At a rally held in Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s constituency, four of Reform’s five MPs gave speeches.

During the North West Essex rally, Mr Farage told Reform members the Conservative Party “should be bloody scared of you”.

Recent polling has suggested the party has pulled level with, and possibly overtaken, the Tories.

A Techne UK poll put Reform in second place with 24%, one point ahead of the Conservatives on 23% and two points behind first-placed Labour on 26%.

Mr Farage said: “I think also we’re beginning to see a wave that is crossing the Atlantic from the east coast of America, where Donald Trump, standing on a platform many of whose policies were not dissimilar to what we put to the British people in that contract last July, has won this incredible victory and got off to the most amazing start.

“And even those people that don’t like him say, you know what? He gets things done.

“People look at us and say ‘like Trump these people will get things done’, and believe me, we will.

“This is not just going to be an earthquake in British politics. This is going to be the biggest historical political change this country has ever seen.”

In advance of the various claims put forward by Mr Farage, Ms Badenoch dismissed Reform UK as a “protest party”.

She told reporters she was not worried by its presence in her political back garden, adding that talking about Labour’s farming policy was “much more important than having a rally about myself”.

During a visit to a farm in Cheshire, Ms Badenoch said it was “not a surprise” that Reform UK was gaining in the poll as a “protest party”.

It came after a row between the Tory leader and Mr Farage over party membership numbers during the Christmas period.

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Migrants deal a win for Starmer – and could help with fight against Reform

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July 10, 2025

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Migrants deal a win for Starmer - and could help with fight against Reform

The bromance between Sir Keir Starmer and President Macron is so apparent – embraces all around.

This is some deft diplomacy from Sir Keir, who has been love-bombing his French counterpart ever since he became prime minister – trying to get closer ties, be it on security, on trade, and now of course on small boats.

And he has got a win today – he’s got President Macron to agree a deterrent deal.

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You remember the Conservatives were trying the Rwanda plan to deter people from coming by sending them back to Rwanda, a third country, if they came here illegally.

What the prime minister has agreed with President Macron today is a big deal. It’s a one in, one out deal.

What they’re going to do is, if someone arrives here illegally, they will be sent back to France, and in return, the UK will accept a legitimate asylum seeker. It might be someone who has family ties.

It’s going to start off really small – think of it as a pilot – as they’re going to test it out, see if it works.

It might be just a handful of people being sent back, maybe just under a thousand or so by the end of the year. But they will hopefully, for the prime minister, scale it up and it could become a real deterrent.

I’ll leave you with just one more thought: As Prime Minister Starmer and President Macron were doing this deal today, Nigel Farage was in the English Channel documenting illegal migrants making that crossing – 79 people being picked up by Border Force, taken off a dinghy and into Dover.

Polling out this morning by Portland suggests four in 10 voters who are planning on going to Reform would go back to Labour if the prime minister tackles small boats and drives down the crossings.

There is a real political imperative for him to try to start to resolve this problem. It’s going to count at the ballot box – immigration is a top-three issue in this country when it comes to voters.