Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf has hailed Nigel Farage's party after securing double election victory in Runcorn & Helsby and Greater Lincolnshire.Just six votes separated Reform UK and Labour as Sarah Pochin was elected to Parliament in the Runcorn & Helsby by-election - making her the first female Reform MP.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00And just finally, the Prime Minister didn't visit, but pretty much everybody else from Labour was up here.
00:05They threw everything at it. Why do you think that was?
00:08And what is your message for the Labour government?
00:11Because a lot of the focus has previously been on the damage that you're going to do to the Conservatives.
00:16Yeah. Well, look, my sense, having spent quite a lot of time here campaigning and knocking on doors,
00:21if the Prime Minister had visited, it would have been less close.
00:25Labour would have gotten far fewer votes. He is deeply, deeply maligned, deeply unpopular.
00:29The word betrayed kept coming up. This was something I picked up that was really interesting.
00:34Speaking to people on the doorstep, we spoke to so many Labour voters, in some cases lifelong Labour voters,
00:39who are now going to vote for reform, who kept using the word betrayed.
00:43They betrayed us in a very similar way that I would hear the same word being used about Tories.
00:48Now, obviously, the Tories were total also rancid.
00:50Isn't it funny that His Majesty's most loyal opposition, not even in the running for the first important parliamentary by-election here,
00:57but the most important thing is Keir Starmer has betrayed Labour.
01:01A lot of those voters feel betrayed. We are the party for working people.
01:05Nigel has been, I would say, at the forefront of saying, look, we're parking our tanks on Labour's lawns.
01:11And this, the evidence in Runcorn and Helsby and across the country,
01:14the analysis I've seen already from the results that have come out shows that the swing from Labour to reform
01:20in many, many seats is well north of 20 percentage points, in some cases 30 percentage points.
01:26Huge swing. So I think that Labour support is extremely brittle.
01:30We've got a huge opportunity not just to win support from former Tory voters,
01:35but also to win support from Labour voters.
01:37And that's why I am very confident.
01:38If we work hard, we continue to get our message out there that we can get Nigel elected as our prime minister
01:44and have a reformed government.
01:46And just very finally, you're all from quite privileged backgrounds.
01:50Richard Tice, Nigel Farage, yourself.
01:53Working people, some very disadvantaged people are putting their faith in reform.
01:57Do you really, really get it, what they're going through?
02:02Well, I can talk about my own story.
02:04I didn't grow up in poverty, but it certainly wasn't privileged.
02:06My parents came here from Sri Lanka in the early 1980s.
02:09And, you know, we didn't have all that much money.
02:11I got a great education because I got a scholarship and they both worked two jobs.
02:14So my first two jobs were on minimum wage.
02:17So, look, the most important thing is that nobody is connecting with working people in this country
02:22in the way that Nigel does, in the way that our MPs do.
02:26Why? Because we talk about common sense, not because we're ideologically possessed
02:30and because we have a government that is those things.
02:32You know, we have an energy secretary who is destroying this country through insane policies
02:38that, you know, the net zero lunacy, the religion that causes us to have the most expensive energy in the world.
02:44We have a chancellor who has no idea how any sort of business works, how any economy works,
02:49which is why we have no growth in our economy.
02:51The number of taxes she has raised, which are resulting in literally less money for the exchequer,
02:57whether it's capital gains, whether it's inheritance tax.
03:00These are people who are utterly clueless.
03:01And so when I walk around with Nigel and he spent time here, he was here all day today
03:07and he's been here three times during this campaign, he's a very powerful campaigner for us.
03:11The reception he gets from working people is unlike anything I've ever seen.