Farage Delivers ‘Major’ Local Election Campaign Speech – Guido Fawkes

LIVE: Farage Delivers ‘Major’ Local Election Campaign Speech

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Nigel Farage is in a working men’s club in County Durham today making a play for Labour’s heartlands as Reform ramps up its local election campaign. Farage will be going in with a spring in his step after The Sun splashed a Survation poll showing 68% of voters believe “Britain is Broken” and that Labour is holding on to fewer than three-quarters of its 2024 voters. Expect talk of “parking tanks on Labour’s lawn”…

Reform UK are parking our tanks on Labour’s lawn. Watch Nigel Farage speak LIVE from County Durham as we take the fight to Keir Starmer. https://t.co/IETNPV7yU7

— Reform UK (@reformparty_uk) April 15, 2025

Farage makes a joke about Jonathan Reynolds not actually being a solicitor. As per Guido’s reporting… 

Farage then dismisses Labour’s attack lines that Reform “fawns over Putin” and wants to “charge people to use the NHS”, positioning Reform as the party for working people. Farage says MPs “wouldn’t be sitting on a Saturday” for the British Steel vote if it wasn’t for Reform campaigning to protect those jobs in Scunthorpe…