Guido’s Senior Reporter Ellie Wheatley asked Nigel Farage how many applications Reform had got for its recently-opened General Election candidate scheme. Farage said about 600 had applied in the first two days. The Reform leader added:
“We have to put 5,432 candidates in the field for May the 7th. It is an absolutely gargantuan job, not just for us, but for the other parties as well… my focus clearly has got to be our focus all of us has got to be making sure we really are battle ready for May 7th including another 900 seats that’ll be fought that weren’t being fought yesterday morning.”
Guido hears the mood in Labour HQ is measurably more maudlin…
Starmer was read out a list of his 13 U-turns on BBC Radio 2, to which he responded:
“Well, I am a common sense merchant.”