The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed victory over both Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch’s parties and said that they have had “the Labour Party for lunch.”
Speaking in Consett Farage told a crowd, that Starmer “said Nigel Farage will have the Conservative Party for breakfast’. He said it in Prime Minister’s Questions.
“Well, he missed a bit, which was: we were going to have the Labour Party for lunch and that we’ve done today.”
On Friday Reform UK won Durham County Council from Labour and Farage issued a stern warning to staff at the authority.
Farage said, “I would advise anyone working for Durham County Council on climate change initiatives, or diversity, equity and inclusion, or thinks they can go on working from home, I think you all better really be seeking alternative careers very, very quickly.”
Farage will also send in Reform “auditors” into the councils to look at ways to find savings, he added that “today marks the end of two-party politics” in the UK, “it is finished, it is over, it is gone.”
Speaking to Sky News he said that Reform’s success in the local elections is “beyond my wildest dreams,” he added, “It just goes to show: people are ready for real change.”
He said that both Labour and the Tories did not do well because “no-one is seeing change, economically or socially.”
“People are actually getting poorer, despite what the government is saying. So, people want something different,” he added.
Sky News’ Beth Rigby asked Farage if people will take the claim that Reform could end up in Downing Street, he said, “They’re not laughing now are they?”
“This is Reform-quake!”
Farage said he will not changes his leadership stance, “I’m not Mr Bland, I am who I am, take me or leave me.”
“If you like me, that’s fantastic. If you don’t, I don’t care,” he added.
