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Nigel Farage says he wants to 'take over' the
Conservative party
We
mentioned in the opening summary that Nigel Farage told ITV’s Good Morning
Britain his goal was to take the Conservative party over, rather than join it.
Here are the fuller quotes from the interview.
“You can
speculate as to what’ll happen in three or four years’ time, all I will tell
you is if Reform succeed in the way that I think they can, then a chunk of the
Conservative party will join us – it’s the other way around,” he said.
Farage
pointed to Canada, where “Reform did a reverse takeover of the Conservative
party, rebranded it and Stephen Harper – who was elected as a Reform MP –
became the Canadian prime minister for 10 years”.
He said: “I
don’t want to join the Conservative party, I think the better thing to do would
be to take it over.”
Farage –
who had previously suggested he could be open to talks with the Tories – has
said his ambition was to “reshape the centre-Right”. He has suggested a “chunk”
of the Conservatives could join his party and says that many Labour voters, not
just Conservative ones, will vote for Reform as they don’t see much of a
difference between the two main parties.
Farage’s
bid to win in Clacton, which was the first to elect a Ukip MP in 2014 and has a
Tory majority of 24,702, will be his eighth attempt to enter parliament. He has
failed on each of the previous seven occasions.
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