The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was accused of plotting to join forces with the people who ‘broke Britain’ after refusing to rule out a deal with the Conservatives
Nigel Farage has been ridiculed after refusing to rule out a deal with the Tories at the next general election.
The Reform UK leader was accused of serving only himself after the comments, and plotting to join forces with the people who “broke Britain”.
Mr Farage’s outfit has faced extensive criticism after welcoming a series of failed Conservatives, including Robert Jenrick, Danny Kruger, Suella Braverman and Andrew Rosindell.
Speaking with The Times, Mr Farage was asked to rule out a confidence and supply arrangement with the Tories after the next election. Mr Farage called the prospect “highly undesirable”, but refused to rule it out.
He said: “You’re talking about a scenario that is so far down the road. Well there’s never a no, is there. There’s never a no to anything in life, but it’s highly undesirable on the basis of trust.”
Responding, Anna Turley, Chair of the Labour Party, said: “The cat is well and truly out of the bag. Nigel Farage would do a dodgy deal with the same Tories who failed our country for 14 years if he ever got within an inch of power. They’d help him replace the NHS, slash public services and hand massive tax cuts to the richest.
“Reform are not on your side. Nigel Farage cannot be trusted to serve anything other than his own naked self-interest. He’d even join forces with the very people he says broke Britain if that’s what it took to get him into power. Send Nigel Farage a message on Thursday 7 May: Vote Labour.”
The Reform UK leader also defended his friendship with Donald Trump, backing his “friend” after also supporting his invasion of Iran. Mr Farage said: “I count friends as friends, even when I fall out and disagree with them. I said at the beginning we should be supporting America, absolutely. What we’ve done by denying use of the bases, then U-turning and allowing use of the bases, has upset the relationship with America.”
In the same interview, the former banker insisted he did disagree on some areas with the US President, but that the pair were still close. He said: “I can give you a long list of areas where I felt his position and ours were different. But the point about allies and relationships is you can have these differences without fundamentally fracturing — we are like families. So whatever we think about Trump in the short term is not the point. It’s the relationship with America that really matters.”
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