Nigel Farage told a crypto conference in London:
“Are you talking to the next prime minister? I think so, yes. Politics is going through quite a revolution in our country at the moment, we’ve been used to two-party politics and it’s been there for a long time … Is this a reflection of my own incredible charisma, oratory, skills, track record? Or is it that I’m up against a bunch of absolutely useless, the worst political leaders we’ve ever seen in our lives?”
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.”