Reform UK leader Richard Tice says his party will be ready for a general election and urged Labour to stand aside, as he claims he did for the Conservatives in 2019. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well, I will be ready whenever there is a general election.
00:02 There will be one this year for certain.
00:04 We think it'll be in the autumn.
00:07 If you're the prime minister with all the prestige that
00:10 goes with that, why would you give up a job early
00:12 when you know you're going to lose and lose badly?
00:14 So yes, we're on election footing.
00:15 We're getting ready.
00:17 And onwards and upwards.
00:18 Do you get annoyed people keep saying, where's Farage?
00:21 No, not at all, actually.
00:22 I mean, look, we're going up in the polls.
00:24 We're now at 13%.
00:26 And I've been very clear that if Nigel
00:29 can give some help, the more the better, frankly.
00:31 We speak weekly.
00:32 He's our honorary president.
00:34 And he's got a big decision to make.
00:36 Look, the whole point of democracy
00:37 is if people got a view as to how the country should be run,
00:39 you put it out there.
00:40 We stand in every single seat.
00:42 And our view is, look, the Tories have had their chance.
00:44 We stood aside for them in 2019, gave them an 80-seat majority.
00:48 They've completely blown it.
00:50 They've messed up.
00:51 They've broken the country.
00:52 Frankly, they should now stand aside
00:55 if they had any moral decency and say, we're so sorry.
00:57 We've messed up.
00:58 And actually, let me take on, Keir Starmer.
01:01 The idea, Jeremy, that a party could get 5 million votes
01:04 and not a single seat when another party gets
01:06 a million and a half votes and gets 30 seats
01:09 is not democracy.