Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, stated that the party’s general election campaign was severely impacted by the controversy surrounding several of its candidates. He described some of the candidates as “at best loopy and at worst extremely racist,” and acknowledged that this did “enormous harm” to the party’s chances. Farage estimated that around 20 problematic candidates may have cost the party up to 1.5 million votes, stressing the importance of better candidate selection in the future. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Let's face it, the last eight, ten days of a general election were dominated by, you know,
00:06at best, loopy, and at worst, extremely racist candidates, and that was because
00:13the party wasn't professionalised, there wasn't proper vetting.
00:16It did us enormous harm, and probably in retrospect rightly so.
00:20Divided parties don't win elections, but equally parties that are indisciplined don't either.
00:26And we probably had 20 candidates that cost us one and a half million votes, something like that.
00:33So getting that right's really important.
00:37It matters.
00:38Also, to get the structures on the ground that we need,
00:43we need professional organisers all over Britain.