Some polls show Reform UK overtaking other parties, suggesting they could be a major force at the next election. We ask locals why they think they’re gaining support and whether they’d want them to lead the country.
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00:00Well, I certainly wouldn't want them to form the next government.
00:03I think that some of them have got some highly dubious views,
00:07to put it mildly.
00:09I think one of the reasons they're gaining traction
00:11is that people have lost faith in the traditional political parties.
00:15Some of that is founded and some unfounded,
00:19and probably the rise of social media
00:22and people's kind of hunt for populist easy answers is part of that.
00:27The answer is very simple.
00:28People always will try something else.
00:30But I think if you kind of remind people that you're part of a society
00:35and everybody has different needs and requirements,
00:39so what's good for all of us is always the best thing.
00:43And sometimes a fresh, new political force
00:46will kind of make the ones more established
00:49pay more attention to what they're doing.
00:52So I think it's all working out.
00:54I don't trust any of them.
00:56Who's ever in, I've no faith in any of them.
00:59Because I'm old.