He is known for helping sell Brexit to millions of voters, is a friend of Donald Trump and wants to ‘stop the boats’. Right-wing political leader Nigel Farage is again shaking up UK politics as the country prepares to head for the polls. But despite the emergence of hidden camera footage of some of his campaign workers making racist and homophobic slurs, he is continuing 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, that's where it comes down to.
00:12The leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, and friend of Donald Trump, believes freezing
00:17non-essential immigration will help solve the UK's problems.
00:21We literally can't cope. We have a shortage of housing, healthcare, you know, we have
00:26a real problem.
00:27Your party says that Britain is broken. Why?
00:30Nothing works. Nothing works. We 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.
00:44I think he's a very good man. I like the way he speaks. He's a straight shooter.
00:51Farage is running in Clacton-on-Sea, where many locals want to stop the boats.
00:56He was known as Great Britain. You can forget about the great now.
01:02Clacton has high unemployment and small businesses are struggling. People here hoped Brexit would
01:07fix things, but it didn't.
01:10If the polls are right, the Labor party's on track to win a majority on July 4th, ending
01:1514 years of Conservative government. But the Reform party is hoping to be a dominant force
01:21in opposition. And that has the Conservatives worried.
01:25Reform poses a very significant threat to the Conservatives. But this is the Conservatives'
01:30fault. If they hadn't tried to attack the rights, if they'd concentrated on decent,
01:34sensible, moderate centre-ground policies, they would have had a better chance of stopping
01:38these catastrophic losses that they're facing.
01:41It's far from a done deal for Nigel Farage, though.
01:44I think he's a bit of a clown. He's all talk and no action.
01:51Farage angered many by saying the West provoked Russia to invade Ukraine, and some in his
01:56party have been accused of racism and homophobia.
01:59He's got all sorts of funny ideas, very extreme ideas, and I think realistically he just doesn't
02:03represent people around here.
02:07In a country where voting isn't compulsory, Farage must not only convince them to vote
02:12for him, but to bother voting at all.