Nigel Farage is back in Westminster this morning to deliver a heavily-trailed press conference, launching what his team bills as the “biggest direct attack” yet on “unpatriotic” Keir Starmer over his Chagos and EU surrender deals. Farage will demand the two-child benefits cap be scrapped and call for the return of universal winter fuel payments. He’s also set to wade into what he’s calling the “existential crisis” of Britain’s collapsing birth rate, promising tax breaks for married couples. Expect much talk of Reform as the party for “working people”…
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage gives his pitch to working people. ⬇️
Nigel Farage is holding a press conference in central London.https://t.co/7sVnmWn8Gp
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Newly-elected Reform MP Sarah Pochin is up first. She says “the Tories are finished, and we are coming after Labour”…
Party chairman Zia Yusuf says there is “hope for the country”. Farage says it’s irrelevant who the next Tory leader is…
Farage then rattles off a list of Guido stories in his speech including ‘Rachel from Complaints’ and Jonathan Reynolds’ ‘solicitor’ claims. Farage then invites Keir Starmer to a head-to-head debate…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”