• 2 months ago
Reform UK has begun its party conference in Birmingham with leader Nigel Farage saying that he is optimistic that the party can win the next general election. Mr Farage said: "We are at a moment in time in politics where levels of disenchantment with the two main parties have never been higher." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth,
00:05happy, joyous, are you going to have a drink later, Nigel?
00:08Am I ever going to have a drink?
00:15Hello, how are you?
00:17I see you dressed down again.
00:22You never let me down.
00:23No, I will let you down.
00:25How are you, how are we team?
00:27Fantastic.
00:30Do you know, I set this up the way I did because I was aware
00:34that, you know, nascent political parties are vulnerable to being
00:37hijacked by all sorts of maligned outside forces.
00:40So I kept 60% of the ownership of it
00:42to make sure that could never happen.
00:44Today is really all about the party coming of age and me letting go.
00:47I spent 20 years being told,
00:49Nigel, you're wasting your time, we'll never leave the European Union.
00:52Well, we did.
00:53So, look, we are going all out to do everything we can
00:57in the next five years to win the next election.
00:59That may sound unrealistic to you,
01:01but I just think we're at a moment in time in politics
01:04where levels of disenchantment with the two main parties have never been higher.

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