He is known for helping to sell Brexit to millions of British voters, is a friend of Donald Trumps, and openly wants to ‘stop the boats’. Right-wing political leader Nigel Farage is shaking up UK politics as the country prepares to head to the polls. Hidden camera footage has emerged of some of his campaign making racist and homophobic slurs, but he continues to attract a lot of support.
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00:00On a balmy British evening, Nigel Farage has brought politics to the pub.
00:07There's too many people. That's where it comes down to.
00:12The leader of the right-wing Reform UK party and friend of Donald Trump
00:16believes freezing non-essential immigration will help solve the UK's problems.
00:21We literally can't cope. We have a shortage of housing, healthcare.
00:25You know, we have a real problem.
00:27Your party says that Britain is broken. Why?
00:30Nothing works. Nothing works.
00:32We pay more and more tax and we get lower and lower returns.
00:37The election on July 4th will be Nigel Farage's eighth attempt to win a seat in Parliament.
00:43And he's tipped to get it.
00:45I think he's a very good man. I like the way he speaks. He's a straight shooter.
00:50Farage is running in Clacton-on-Sea, where many locals want to stop the boats.
00:56We was known as Great Britain. You can forget about the great now.
01:02Clacton has high unemployment and small businesses are struggling.
01:06People here hoped Brexit would fix things, but it didn't.
01:10If the polls are right, the Labor Party's on track to win a majority on July 4th,
01:15ending 14 years of Conservative government.
01:18But the Reform Party is hoping to be a dominant force in opposition.
01:22And that has the Conservatives worried.
01:25Reform poses a very significant threat to the Conservatives.
01:28But this is the Conservatives' fault.
01:30If they'd concentrated on decent, sensible, moderate centre-ground policies,
01:34they would have had a better chance of stopping these catastrophic losses that they're facing.
01:39It's far from a done deal for Nigel Farage, though.
01:42This week, a Reform volunteer was secretly filmed making racist comments about migrants.
01:47Even before this, there were plenty of Farage critics in Clacton.
01:51I think he's a bit of a clown.
01:54He's all talk and no action.
01:57He's got all sorts of funny ideas, very extreme ideas,
02:00and I think realistically he just doesn't represent people around here.
02:05In a country where voting isn't compulsory,
02:08Farage must not only convince them to vote for him, but to bother voting at all.