Takes Labor’s victory for granted and aspires to surpass the Conservative Party: “We will be the voice of the opposition”
June 3 () –
The British politician Nigel Farage, one of the leaders of the campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, announced this Monday his return to politics not only with his return to the leadership of the Reform party, but also with his candidacy for the upcoming July 4 elections.
Farage assured just ten days ago that he would not stand as a candidate in the parliamentary elections, which is now making a radical change to his position and will even lead the party again as he already did for two years between 2019 and 2021. This is what he has announced. at a press conference the until now leader, Richard Tice.
After Tice, Farage has taken the floor to confirm that he will finally stand for election for the city of Clacton, in the county of Essex. “I have changed my mind. I am going to run in these elections,” said the ultranationalist politician, reports Sky News.
Thus, Farage has assured that he will return to politics “for the next five years” and that his main objective is for his party to get more votes than UKIP – a Eurosceptic party that he led for years – in the 2015 elections. , when he managed to convince almost four million voters.
Farage has assured that this was being the “most boring” electoral campaign and has denounced that a situation has been reached in which the population “does not believe a word” of what the Labor Party and the Conservative Party promise, the two main British political formations.
In this sense, he has accused both parties of having governed from a “class politics” that has led to the majority of young people not even knowing what ‘D-Day’ was, alluding to the date on which the Normandy landings, an event that marked the beginning of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
ASPIRE TO BE THE OPPOSITION PARTY
During his speech, Farage acknowledged that Labor will probably win the victory on July 4 – polls give him a victory of about 20 percentage points over the Conservatives – but he stressed that, with his candidacy Reforma will be the second most voted force.
At this point, he has almost gone so far as to congratulate the Labor leader, Keir Starmer, for his victory in the elections, but has stressed that Reforma will ensure that it is “the voice of the opposition” in Westminster.
With these first statements, Farage has tried to garner the support of conservative voters, who see how their leader and current prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is failing in the polls and is heading towards a resounding defeat in the elections in a month’s time. At the same time he has also tried to convince Labor voters
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