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…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”