sexta-feira, 31 de janeiro de 2025

Farage accepts people 'disappointed' by Brexit - but claims Reform UK could 'finish the job'

 


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10.24 GMT

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Farage accepts people 'disappointed' by Brexit - but claims Reform UK could 'finish the job'

Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has admitted that people are “disappointed” by Brexit. He has marked the fifth anniversary by recording a video message for Daily Express readers saying that the proper Brexit they wanted has not been delivered because they were let down by the Tories. He says:

 

[Brexit has] not been delivered and if I sat here five years ago I’d have said to you in five years’ time I’d be retired, I’d be out, I’d have done my bit, my 27 years of campaigning finally paid off.

 

But I’m back and I’m back because we now need people in charge to deliver the Brexit we voted for who actually believe in it …

 

We know Labour were opposed, [Keir] Starmer wanted a second referendum, Liberal Democrats the same.

 

But I frankly look now at Boris Johnson, Kemi Badenoch, all of these people, I don’t think they ever really believed in it.

 

I think they used it as a vehicle to win a general election, which I helped them do. They never really believed in it.

 

They always kind of saw it I think a bit more as damage limitation rather than an opportunity.

 

I’m here to say I’m disappointed, you watching this will be disappointed, we can do so much better and we’re the guys to do it.

 

He is also urging voters to let his party “finish the job”.

 

Another anniversary, yet still Brexit has not been properly delivered.

 

The time has come to let those of us who started Brexit in 2016 finish the job.

 

Reform stands ready to do just that in 2029

 

And tonight he is holding a rally in Badenoch’s North West Essex constituency to try to show that his party has more support than hers.

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