Nigel Farage delivered a fiery attack on Britain’s political establishment, arguing that the country is “broken” and calling for a general election. Farage predicted a spring 2027 election, saying financial pressures could force Labour to go to the polls early. He also attacked what he described as bigger government, higher taxes and continued failure under Labour. Farage said Andy Burnham has no mandate to govern the country and argued voters deserve a fresh choice. The Reform UK leader framed his message as a roadmap for resetting Britain and promised major change under a future Reform government.
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00:00Good afternoon conference. I'm sorry we were delayed. It was a security alert and I was told
00:09for security reasons I couldn't take the stage. That's why we had the delay. So I decided instead
00:16to come among you and sing and dance. And it worked out pretty well I think in the end.
00:24We have another year and another Prime Minister. Can you believe it? The seventh in ten years.
00:34I mean think about it. We used to laugh at the Italians. Not any longer. But what clearer sign
00:41could there be that Britain is broken, that even our politics doesn't work anymore. So I wonder
00:49what will this new Prime Minister Andy Burnham actually do? Well he keeps saying that for 40
01:01years we've been headed in the wrong direction in every way. We need more state control. We need
01:08more public ownership. And he sounds like the most radical Prime Minister in decades. And yet
01:14his Chancellor, his Chancellor John Healey says, this is a continuity government. Oh we've got a
01:23screamer. We've got a screamer. We've got a screamer.
01:36There is a...
01:37Oh dear, oh dear.
01:43There is a...
01:50Oh dear.
02:01Well, you may know, oh dear.
02:24What do they say? Order, order that poor young girl. She looked like she was going to do herself an
02:31injury, didn't she?
02:34Well, there's a saying I've got for that. You know what it is, don't you? Boring, boring, boring.
02:45No, I suspect the truth is there'll be very little difference in this government to the one that went before.
02:53That is my suggestion, although he does have a big solution. It's called number 10 North.
03:01North. And what does that mean? It means bigger government, more taxes and, of course, more failure.
03:11Now, I stood on this very stage in September 2024, just after our breakthrough in the general election, and I
03:18said Starmer's government will not go the full term.
03:23I said very clearly that I believed that financial circumstances would force Labour into the spring 2027 election.
03:34And you know what? I stand by that. I believe there will be an election next spring.
03:44And I believe there must be a general election because Andy Burnham has no mandate.
03:50The Messiah, without a mandate, we deserve a general election on who continues to govern this country.
03:59So at this conference we say, enough of all the broken promises. Enough of all the U-turns.
04:07We need a government that actually delivers on its promises.
04:12A government that restores trust in the entirety of the voting system.
04:18A government that is honest with the country and admits that Britain is broken and Britain needs reform.
04:27And we're the only people capable of doing it.
04:36The Tories had 14 years in power and failed absolutely miserably.
04:44Andy Burnham says he needs 10 years.
04:50At this conference we tell you that in the first 100 days of government we will make fundamental changes to
04:59the way this country is run.
05:00We will keep our pledges and I will hold those ministers to account.
05:05And if in 100 days they have not delivered on their promises,
05:09I will sack them and replace them with somebody else with the courage to do it.
05:21Now, since we were last here in September, let's remind ourselves of one or two of the ups and downs
05:26of this year.
05:28May the 7th this year was massive.
05:30We wiped out the Conservative Party in East Anglia.
05:34We smashed some East Anglians there, clearly.
05:38And we smashed the Labour Party in the Midlands.
05:44And the North.
05:48And let's not forget the huge strides we made in Scotland and Wales.
05:56We campaigned on a slogan.
05:59Vote reform, get Starmer out.
06:03A promise made and a promise kept.
06:09We have gone on to build the biggest party membership in the country.
06:16We now have over 2,500 elected councillors.
06:20We are in control of over 30 councils.
06:25And I was especially pleased the other week when Britain's most famous living detective,
06:31Colin Sutton, was elected as our Police and Crime Commissioner in Norfolk.
06:43That's all right.
07:01I think maybe next year we'll put the price of the tickets up, don't you?
07:08This time last year, I was the leader of the party, Richard Tice was the deputy.
07:14That was the entirety of our front bench.
07:18A lot has changed this year.
07:20Robert Jenrick, now acting as our Shadow Chancellor.
07:24Zia Youssef, acting as our Spokesman on Home Affairs.
07:28Suella Braverman, skills, education, universities, Richard Tice, business and energy, who you've just heard from.
07:38And we have, in Dan Thomas, the opposition leader in Wales.
07:47And in Scotland, we have Malcolm Offord, leading Scotland.
07:55Malcolm, have a go if you're hard enough, Offord.
08:00And in both Wales and Scotland, of course, we have full Shadow Cabinets.
08:06We've also been joined this year by the 25-year Member of Parliament for Romford, Andrew Rosendall,
08:14who I think was reformed before reform was even founded.
08:22And since last year, Danny Kruger has come in, a man that has worked in Number 10, in government,
08:34to help us prepare for government.
08:37This time last year, I said on this very stage, that our biggest weakness was that we lacked experience.
08:44We didn't have anybody who'd been there on the front lines.
08:54It's alright.
08:58These are the benefits of a university education, folks.
09:04Yeah.
09:06I bet she's studying.
09:10Tell us, love, is it sociology, is it?
09:12Yeah, I bet it is.
09:23It's fine.
09:25It's fine.
09:26It's fine.
09:29Now we have frontline experience.
09:31Now we have frontline people speaking for us in the UK, Scotland, Wales, England.
09:38But we've more to do.
09:40There are more big jobs to fill.
09:43And I'm looking and working on defence, health and the other areas.
09:48And we will get there.
09:51We will get there soon.
09:58But we've also lost somebody very, very important to us.
10:04And I thought the tributes, at least I hope and believe the tributes that were paid to Anne
10:10Widdicombe this morning at the start of this conference were correct and appropriate.
10:15Anne, we missed you terribly.
10:17And we missed you terribly.
10:17May God bless your soul.
10:26And we're busy.
10:28We're busy restructuring the party.
10:30We're busy raising money.
10:31We're interviewing general election candidates four days a week.
10:35And believe me, when that election comes, we will fight to win.
10:44No question.
10:52No question.
10:54But since May the 8th, and May the 8th was the day the establishment woke up and thought,
10:59oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, these people aren't just a flash in the pan.
11:04These people are not going to go away.
11:06And we have been the subject of a highly coordinated campaign of attacks.
11:13In a sense, it's not really surprising.
11:16If you think about it, two parties have dominated British politics for over 100 years.
11:22And around them is a whole ecosystem of membership of the House of Lords, the issuance of government
11:31contracts, heads of quangos, and so much else.
11:35A whole ecosystem around the century-old two-party system.
11:40And we come along and threaten that they were never going to come out with a tray of gin and
11:47tonics.
11:48I promise you.
11:50But I promise you, we will not be distracted by any of this.
11:54We are absolutely determined in what we're doing.
12:03And our opponents, our opponents are so conniving, and I include both Labour and Conservative in
12:10this, they tried to deny the vote to five million people on the 7th of May this year.
12:17In some cases, for the second year in a row.
12:20And it was reform.
12:22By pushing that legal action that won back the right to vote for five million people.
12:35And then, statement after statement in the House of Commons from Labour ministers trying to
12:42change the rules on donors, treating successful British businessmen who have gone out round
12:49the world and made a huge success of their lives, actually calling them in the Commons
12:53malign actors.
12:56Now, talking of money, and this thing is not always easy, you will, you will, oh dear.
13:18That one went a bit more quietly, didn't it?
13:25You will have noticed today, and by the way, the timing of today is no coincidence, is it?
13:31The fact this happened on the first day of a reform conference is no coincidence.
13:38So you will have noticed we have experienced a little local difficulty today.
13:54A foreign-funded group of hard-left activists with a long history.
14:01Indeed, a group in the past strongly criticised by the US Congress for their methods have for
14:07over a year, and at huge financial cost, targeted figures in reform.
14:14Make no mistake, this was an exercise, a prolonged exercise, in entrapment.
14:20I want to be clear, the party has done nothing wrong.
14:23The party has taken no illegal money.
14:26The party has taken no money.
14:29That's important.
14:39I was asked today, I was asked today about the polling.
14:43Let me be clear on that too.
14:45The polls in question were not commissioned by reform.
14:50The results were out there in the full public domain, and there is no issue.
14:55What is problematic is loose pub talk, including a couple of boasts that were made that simply
15:04were not true.
15:07But some of the comments made by two of our team were injudicious at best.
15:16Neither of these men was authorised to act in this way.
15:19Accordingly, they have stepped down, pending an investigation.
15:23I repeat, reform has broken no law.
15:26We take compliance extremely seriously.
15:38And ask yourself, why is all of this happening?
15:43Anyone got a clue why it's happening?
15:48Because they're scared of us.
15:53That's why it's happening.
15:57And in my case, I've broken no laws, abused no public money.
16:03I haven't even got a motorhome, believe me.
16:14I'm accused of a non-declaration of a personal gift, a personal gift that might just keep
16:21me alive.
16:23Might just keep me alive.
16:30But I couldn't wait forever.
16:32I couldn't wait for six months or a year for this committee to decide.
16:36So I said, right.
16:38I'll tell you what.
16:38The voters of Clacton, they can be my judge.
16:42Let the people of Clacton decide.
16:44And they answered with an emphatic win.
16:47And I thank them very much indeed.
16:57So today, we make the 100-day pledge.
17:01And we're taking on a Conservative Party who failed on all of their promises and reasonable
17:09expectations.
17:10A party who put net zero into law.
17:15A party who earlier released 160,000 prisoners.
17:21A party who gave us mass migration on a scale the country has never seen.
17:28And a Boris wave.
17:30A Boris wave, given that the vast majority that came don't work and will never work,
17:36that will cost us hundreds of billions of pounds over the decades to come.
17:42And I would argue it's a disaster for which they simply should not be forgiven.
17:54Now, Kimmy Badenoch is very good at denying her own role in all of this.
18:01And every day speaks out on issues.
18:04Suddenly, she's pro-Defence spending.
18:07But she won't tell you that at the end of the Conservative term, they were spending less
18:11on defence than Gordon Brown was.
18:13And I could go on with issue after issue, where she says they will do the exact opposite
18:18to what they did in government.
18:21My view of the Conservative Party is most of them want power for its own sake, rather than
18:29what they can do with it for the good of the country.
18:31And I don't trust them.
18:38And we have a Labour government set for more failure.
18:42Public spending hopelessly out of control.
18:45And let me tell you, they will not stop the boats.
18:50And the fact we're on course for £30,000 this year, and not £40,000 is far from being
18:57a victory.
18:58And a Labour government that continues the persecution of our ex-servicemen, be they regular
19:07army or special forces, to the point where recruitment is at disastrous lows.
19:13A government, despite all the things John Healy had said, who now can't spare a few million
19:20for training exercises for the army.
19:23A government under which it took three weeks to send a single Royal Naval Vessel to Cyprus.
19:32A government determined, determined to pay to give away the Chagos Islands.
19:42A massive strategic error which completely ignores the genuine rights of the Chagossian people
19:52who we are going to stand up and fight for.
19:55They deserve, they deserve to go back to their home.
20:06But it's through that weakness, it's through that weakness that you can see the President
20:12of Argentina.
20:14He now sees a gap and starts to talk about the Falklands.
20:20Our national security is not safe under this government.
20:25On top of that, they are leading us to financial ruin.
20:29We have a Prime Minister stuck in the past with some strange socialist dogma.
20:36He told us in the Commons the other day that the triple helix was the solution to our economic
20:43problems.
20:44Does anybody in this room know what the triple helix is?
20:47Good, because nor do I.
20:52Our pledges are clear.
20:56We will stop the boats within the first hundred days of government.
21:03End of.
21:12And today's historic agreement, signed with Jordan Bardella and on behalf of Marine Le Pen
21:18on stage here, really means we can do this, we can succeed.
21:24And by the way, wasn't he brilliant earlier on today?
21:28Brilliant.
21:32We will, as Richard Tice said to you earlier, cut energy bills by £250 and end the net zero
21:40lunacy, de-industrialising and destroying the British economy.
21:48We will, and you'll hear more from Suella tomorrow, we will boost NHS training.
21:55It's monstrous.
21:56We don't produce enough of our own nurses and doctors, and we rely on importing them
22:01from around the rest of the world.
22:03It's mad.
22:04And Suella will also talk about student tuition fees, about the fact we are sending far too
22:12many young people to university, and you'll hear some quite radical plans from Suella tomorrow.
22:17And from Robert Jenrick tomorrow, his hundred-day pledge will not only be to slash benefit spending
22:26in a big way, but to cut taxes on working people and pensioners in a radical way.
22:40But, and you've heard me say before, you know, we are the party of Alarm Clock Britain, they
22:45are going to love these packages.
22:47But I repeat the point, these aren't vague, empty promises.
22:51These are pledges that we must deliver in the first hundred days of government, or those
22:55individual ministers will have failed.
22:57Indeed, we, as a government, will have failed.
23:00We believe in jeopardy.
23:01We believe in accountability.
23:03And we will do everything, everything within our powers, to make this happen.
23:10So some will say, some will say, and there'll be many sceptics in the room, how can you achieve
23:19this, given the obstacles that are in front of you?
23:23Well, we will declare a national emergency.
23:28All recess of Parliament will be cancelled.
23:32Parliament will sit, if necessarily, for 24 hours a day.
23:46For six days a week, until we pass the necessary legislation.
23:52And our policies will be explicit in our offering document to the British people.
23:56And I expect the House of Lords to honour that, as they've done with the Salisbury Convention
24:03for over a century.
24:07But if they don't, well, we'll present them with an idea.
24:13It's not a new one.
24:14It's been used before.
24:15We'll appoint hundreds of new peers so that we have a majority in the House of Lords.
24:28And if that proves difficult, we'll hold a referendum on the current composition of the House of Lords
24:35and they would be swept away by a British public appalled by them.
24:47Now, the other obstacle, of course, could be the judiciary.
24:51We don't want the courts striking down, do we, the will of the people.
24:56But ultimately, it is Parliament that makes the law.
25:00And we'll remove the ability of judges to lean on outdated conventions
25:06like the European Convention on Human Rights, which will be gone.
25:12Gone.
25:15Gone.
25:18Parliament makes the law.
25:20Judges interpret the law.
25:21We will do whatever it takes and perhaps have to consider how judicial appointments work in the future.
25:28And the same goes for the Civil Service.
25:30If we are elected with a majority on clear manifesto promises,
25:35it is the job of the Civil Service to make sure we can carry that out
25:39on behalf of the people in a democratic country.
25:43But if they try to obstruct us, they will be removed from their posts
25:50and replaced by people from outside, from the worlds of business.
26:01This plan is bold, it's ambitious, but it's much needed.
26:05Britain is broken and only reform has the courage, the conviction and the foresight to fix it.
26:12And I really, truly believe that.
26:15I really do.
26:17And I'm tired.
26:19I'm tired of being told what can't be done.
26:23I'm tired of being told, oh, we couldn't do it because of this.
26:27We couldn't do it because of that.
26:28That is not what the public want.
26:30The public want action.
26:32The public want genuine change.
26:34The public do not want any more of the same.
26:37And our attitude is can do.
26:40Can do and will do.
26:49Believe me, believe me when I say I mean this, I have never been in politics for rank, for title
26:59or career.
27:00There are many other things on this planet that I can go and do.
27:05But I'm doing it, and I've been doing it on and off for 35 years,
27:09because I've always fought for a sovereign, proud, independent country
27:13that understands what it is, respects its history,
27:18is ambitious, energetic, entrepreneurial.
27:21I'm only here because of the failure of our political class,
27:27and I am determined to lead reform to victory at the next general election.
27:33That is my job.
27:43Leadership matters, but so do you,
27:46because you're all part of this incredible people's army that we've built up.
27:52I'm proud of you,
27:53and I hope you're proud of the role you're playing
27:56in changing political history,
27:58in changing the future of this country.
28:02And I thank you for being here today.
28:04I thank you for waiting for the long interlude before this speech.
28:09I thank you for sweet Caroline.
28:11I thank you for delivering leaflets and putting up posters
28:15and doing all that you do.
28:17I'm going to just say thank you.
28:19Love you all.
28:19You're a great lot.
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