Former Home Secretary James Cleverly has warned political parties against dismissing Nigel Farage and Reform UK, ahead of Britain's local elections.Speaking to GB News, Cleverly described Farage as "one of the best political communicators of our generation".FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00What I'm seeing from the front benches of both the government
00:03and the Tory press now is panic about reform.
00:07Like, and, you know, sort of various things that they're doing,
00:11but you sort of look at it and go, you're doing that
00:14because you think that might win, stop some people,
00:17win some voters back who are going to go to reform.
00:19So from your relaxed and thoughtful and considered position,
00:24what do you...
00:27What's your... Do you have any views on it?
00:29So firstly, I think it's important that you understand,
00:36or one understands, or political parties understand,
00:39what is cause and what is effect.
00:42Because if you try to calibrate your actions
00:48to respond to the existence of reform,
00:52or Nigel Farage getting headlines, which he's very, very good at.
00:55He's one of the best political communicators of our generation.
00:59And I've worked with some fantastic politicians.
01:03And he is a fantastic political communicator.
01:06He's never run anything.
01:07No.
01:08But in the job that he's got at the moment,
01:12he is, I suppose, as good an example
01:16of what an insurgent political party needs at its helm.
01:24OK, so we've got to recognise that.
01:26And dismissing him is an error.
01:27So...
01:27And we're going to raise his hand.
01:28And then we have to ham yes.
01:29And I believe that.
01:29And we're still...
01:30All right.
01:31And I'll be going to...
01:31So...
01:32And...
01:32We're still going to be...