Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has announced his intention to become Prime Minister within the next five years.
Farage has set his sights on the 2029 election, as he launched a manifesto set to appeal to Tory voters.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says this doesn't seem impossible, with Farage polling higher than Sunak in some areas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK Correspondents with us, Hey, Hinda.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, Heather, good to speak, come on, tell me.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's not possible that Nigel Farage becomes the prime minister.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, Liz Trust managed it for six weeks, so I
think there's hope for everyone. Really, it's so crazy an
idea that it might just happen, given where we are
in crazy town as I call Westminster. So Forraj, having
never been elected to Parliament in seven attempts, this is
his eighth attempt at getting elected in Westminster. He's running
in Tracton on Sea in Essex. He's now polling higher
(00:31):
than Sunak his new party Reform running at nineteen percent
and his Conservatives are at only eighteen percent. I mean
it is abysmal, really really dire outlook for the Conservatives.
So Foraj has come out and said that this time
around he wants to get elected and be the opposition
and in five years time he wants to run and
(00:52):
be prime minister. So it sounds extremely ambitious for someone
absolutely zero political history in Parliament in Westminster. But like
I say, we're in such a crazy place in UK
politics now it might even.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Happen, does he?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Would he be doing that as the leader of the
Reform Patty or would he be going into the Conservatives
in order to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That's a very good question. I think what's going to happen. Look,
if the polls are to be believed, Sunac can't win
this election. If the polls are to be believed and
everyone that's being surveyed and questioned is giving an honest answer,
the Conservatives are in for an absolute pasting. Here's the
scenario that could unfold. Sunac would have to step down.
If Labor get four hundred plus seats, Sunac is toast.
(01:39):
Then you're left with a rump of a Conservative party.
Now some predictions are saying it could be as few
as seventy two seats, which would be tiny compared to
what they're used to. Could it then happen that Farage
comes in with his Reform whatever group, if he gets
people elected to Parliament and says right, let's lump our
forces together to fight Keir Starmer and lay and stop
(02:00):
them getting a decade in power. And then you're then
left for the situation where Farage becomes leader of the
Conservatives and he's such a populist and so popular at
certain levels in the UK that he could feasibly be
leader of the opposition.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, crazy things have happened, and that sounds like a
very plausible explanation. We'll see if that's what happens. Now,
explain to me why the farmers are defending the copyren
over the cow.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I can't believe this. The footage is terrible. I mean,
I mean Ireland at the moment. My dad is from
a farming family and my dad just said it looks terrible.
It is terrible. What was he doing? So the officers
were called to reports of a runaway calf the other
night in Stains upon Thames, which is a residential area
of Surrey, south of London. Cops turn up on a
(02:43):
four x four. The calf is terrified. It's not charging
a people, it's not hurting people. It just needed someone
who knew what they were doing with animals to get
it under control and get it away safely. And the
first thing the cop does is basically slam four x
four patrol car into the calf, knocking it to the ground.
(03:04):
He then reverses back and strikes it again. The footage
was absolutely hideous. Now the police officer has been suspended
from duty pending in investigation. Step forward one of the
bosses of the National Farmers Union, the NFU, and they
say that the police reacted correctly and at the time,
given the circumstances, was probably the right thing to do.
(03:27):
I'm a bit blown away that a farmer's leader would
say that ramming a young calf with a patrol car
was the only option. And apparently eyewitnesses said they heard
the cop radio in for a firearms unit, so I
think he was only going to be happy if this
animal was dead.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Jeez, well that would have been a better solution than
running it over into Thank you as WELLS really appreciate
you time, Matte. That's in the Brady UK corresponding.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
In the Brady UK Correspondents with us, Hey, Hinda.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, Heather, good to speak, come on, tell me.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's not possible that Nigel Farage becomes the prime minister.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, Liz Trust managed it for six weeks, so I
think there's hope for everyone. Really, it's so crazy an
idea that it might just happen, given where we are
in crazy town as I call Westminster. So Forraj, having
never been elected to Parliament in seven attempts, this is
his eighth attempt at getting elected in Westminster. He's running
in Tracton on Sea in Essex. He's now polling higher
(00:31):
than Sunak his new party Reform running at nineteen percent
and his Conservatives are at only eighteen percent. I mean
it is abysmal, really really dire outlook for the Conservatives.
So Foraj has come out and said that this time
around he wants to get elected and be the opposition
and in five years time he wants to run and
(00:52):
be prime minister. So it sounds extremely ambitious for someone
absolutely zero political history in Parliament in Westminster. But like
I say, we're in such a crazy place in UK
politics now it might even.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Happen, does he?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Would he be doing that as the leader of the
Reform Patty or would he be going into the Conservatives
in order to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That's a very good question. I think what's going to happen. Look,
if the polls are to be believed, Sunac can't win
this election. If the polls are to be believed and
everyone that's being surveyed and questioned is giving an honest answer,
the Conservatives are in for an absolute pasting. Here's the
scenario that could unfold. Sunac would have to step down.
If Labor get four hundred plus seats, Sunac is toast.
(01:39):
Then you're left with a rump of a Conservative party.
Now some predictions are saying it could be as few
as seventy two seats, which would be tiny compared to
what they're used to. Could it then happen that Farage
comes in with his Reform whatever group, if he gets
people elected to Parliament and says right, let's lump our
forces together to fight Keir Starmer and lay and stop
(02:00):
them getting a decade in power. And then you're then
left for the situation where Farage becomes leader of the
Conservatives and he's such a populist and so popular at
certain levels in the UK that he could feasibly be
leader of the opposition.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, crazy things have happened, and that sounds like a
very plausible explanation. We'll see if that's what happens. Now,
explain to me why the farmers are defending the copyren
over the cow.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I can't believe this. The footage is terrible. I mean,
I mean Ireland at the moment. My dad is from
a farming family and my dad just said it looks terrible.
It is terrible. What was he doing? So the officers
were called to reports of a runaway calf the other
night in Stains upon Thames, which is a residential area
of Surrey, south of London. Cops turn up on a
(02:43):
four x four. The calf is terrified. It's not charging
a people, it's not hurting people. It just needed someone
who knew what they were doing with animals to get
it under control and get it away safely. And the
first thing the cop does is basically slam four x
four patrol car into the calf, knocking it to the ground.
(03:04):
He then reverses back and strikes it again. The footage
was absolutely hideous. Now the police officer has been suspended
from duty pending in investigation. Step forward one of the
bosses of the National Farmers Union, the NFU, and they
say that the police reacted correctly and at the time,
given the circumstances, was probably the right thing to do.
(03:27):
I'm a bit blown away that a farmer's leader would
say that ramming a young calf with a patrol car
was the only option. And apparently eyewitnesses said they heard
the cop radio in for a firearms unit, so I
think he was only going to be happy if this
animal was dead.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Jeez, well that would have been a better solution than
running it over into Thank you as WELLS really appreciate
you time, Matte. That's in the Brady UK corresponding.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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