Nigel Farage, honorary leader and newly appointed leader of the British right-wing populist party Reform United Kingdom, attends a campaign rally.
British politician Nigel FarageArchitect BrexitHe will be the new leader of the anti-immigration party Reformed UK And will contest the general elections to be held UK on July 4, despite recently dismissing that possibility. In his appearance today, he explained that the change was due to the need for “these elections to be lively”, adding that till date, the election campaign was “one of the most dull and boring we have seen in our lives”. On May 23, he had said that he would not contest the elections. “It's funny because the more the leaders of the two major parties (Prime Minister and Conservative leader Rishi Sunak and Labor leader Keir Starmer) try to be, the more they look alike,” he said. Farage felt there was “a rejection of the political class that this country has never seen before” and he was “flabbergasted” by the number of people who stopped him in the street last week. Did not participate in the election.
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The politician noted that he felt he “couldn't let voters down” by not standing in the general election, and that he would lead a reforming UK “for the next five years”, not just this election. In 2016, Nigel Farage became known for the vote to leave the United Kingdom. European union, in which he campaigned hard in defense of Brexit. The leader of Reform UK, a former MEP, is currently a presenter on the GB News TV channel, which guarantees him some popularity among conservative voters. According to recent polls, his Reform UK Party has 15% of voting intentions, five points behind the Conservatives, who have around 20%, and well ahead of the country's traditional third party, the Liberal Democrats.
Reform UK aims to appeal to Conservative voters disillusioned with the current Conservative leadership, particularly on issues such as immigration and the goal of net zero emissions. According to these polls, Keir Starmer's Labor Party currently has around 45% of voting intentions, indicating an unbeatable position to end the fourteen-year rule of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party in the July 4 elections. Nigel Farage vowed to attract “millions of voters” this Monday so that Labor would win by a “much smaller” margin than polls predicted, with his party coming second.
*With information from EFE and APF
