Tice: PM was wrong to label all protesters ‘far-right’
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice distances the party from far-right extremists who have taken part in violent street riots across the UK in recent days. Speaking to Jeremy Vine on Channel 5, the MP for Boston and Skegness says he does not want ‘any of those people voting for us’ – but also says the prime minister was wrong to label all of them far-right. Report by Chinnianl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think I saw your leader Nigel Farage saying the army should be brought in, did I see that?
00:03He said, what he said is if the riots can't be stopped then they might have to look at
00:08that from an immediate physical point of view. You're right though, the army are not trained
00:13to deal with riots, riot police are. So it's clearly the absolute last resort. But the
00:19other thing that we have called for is frankly we need to recall parliament and debate this
00:24in parliament.
00:25So you've got a request to Richard?
00:26Well no, first of all I wanted to say, question why, we're allowed to ask questions here,
00:31why Nigel didn't say anything whilst this violence was happening over the weekend. He's
00:35waited till Monday morning to put out that statement. But also I wanted to know why you
00:39weren't there. We spoke about it briefly before the break, unfortunately we had to stop. And
00:42I said to you in the break, you've let down these people Richard, by not being present
00:50or not being a focal point and not dividing yourself or putting a clear line between you
00:55and the likes of Tommy Robinson, Lawrence Balfour.
00:57That's why I wasn't there, because I don't want anything to do with these people.
01:02But Richard, even yourself, there were thousands of people there who weren't far right.
01:07Let him answer, let him answer.
01:09I stood up in parliament and in my maiden speech I talked about the impact of mass immigration
01:16on a market town like Boston that I represent. And it's really serious. So I think of anybody,
01:21you know, I've spoken up more about this and I don't agree that I've let down...
01:25So Nicola, you want him to go to an area where there's a riot and...
01:34I'm not asking you to take responsibility for the riots.
01:36What do you want him to do?
01:37I want you to understand, if you're being honest, that the people who were there at
01:41the weekend, I'm not just talking about far right, although those two, they are more likely
01:46than not to be reformed voters, because your ticket, your mandate is on immigration.
01:50I don't want any of those people voting for us.
01:52Right, so I'm glad you've said that.
01:54I suspect they don't vote at all.
01:56But the thousands of people who were there, and they care so much about immigration,
02:00and they're watching this madness...
02:02And that's why the Prime Minister was so wrong to basically label everybody...
02:06He didn't label everybody. You've labeled everybody.
02:09Let's take some more calls.