“The Reform Party is on the march” - the words of Ben Habib co-deputy leader of the party. You can understand his bravado, the latest opinion poll from March 19th puts his party just four points behind the conservatives.
The recent defection of Lee Anderson from the Tories Reform giving them their first MP. Nine weeks ago, Lee Anderson served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, where he referred to Reform leader Richard Tice as "Apound shop Nigel Farage." His comments, along with accusations of Muslim influence against London Mayor Sadiq Khan and a party suspension for alleged racism, prompted his move to Reform.
Anderson and Reform UK’s stance against immigration appears to have bolstered the party's support across the country.
The recent defection of Lee Anderson from the Tories Reform giving them their first MP. Nine weeks ago, Lee Anderson served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, where he referred to Reform leader Richard Tice as "Apound shop Nigel Farage." His comments, along with accusations of Muslim influence against London Mayor Sadiq Khan and a party suspension for alleged racism, prompted his move to Reform.
Anderson and Reform UK’s stance against immigration appears to have bolstered the party's support across the country.
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00:00 The sort of the rump of the Conservative Party is already shifting sort of rightwards in
00:06 response to the threat of reform, which of course it did previously with UKIP. So yeah,
00:10 I can see that's the sort of the case.
00:12 The Reform Party is on the march. The words of Ben Habib, co-deputy leader of the party.
00:20 You can understand his bravado. The latest opinion poll from March the 19th put his party
00:26 just four points behind the Conservatives. And recently the defection of Lee Anderson
00:33 from the Tories to his party has given them their first MP.
00:39 I want my country back. Over the last year or so, I've had to do a lot of soul searching
00:45 on my political journey. And it was laughing. And I don't expect much in politics other
00:55 than to be able to speak my mind and speak on behalf of my friends, family and my constituents.
01:05 Just nine weeks ago, Lee Anderson served as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.
01:11 His recent accusations of Muslim influence against London Mayor Sadiq Khan led to a party
01:18 suspension for alleged racism. This prompted his move to reform. Anderson's stance against
01:26 immigration appears to have bolstered the party's support, not only in our region, but
01:32 indeed also across the country.
01:36 Most particularly, we know that this is about immigration. That is a sort of debate that's
01:40 not going to go away. And I think the Conservative Party recognise this for whatever, for their
01:45 own sort of reasons. And as I say, responding to the reform UK threat, a merge party might
01:51 be seen to sort of be the antidote. But hey, you know, we're in difficult times. And of
01:56 course, anything can happen in the next few months and certainly the next five years.