Nigel Farage has said Conservative members would choose him as their leader over Rishi Sunak, after Reform UK had its best ever by-elections.
Mr Farage, Reform’s honorary president, said he would “have to” eventually end up in the same party as Conservative MPs like Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4’s The World at One: “I think if you ask Tory party members right now they’d vote for me to be leader and not Rishi Sunak.”
And he insisted there was “zero prospect” repeating the Brexit Party’s 2019 deal with the Conservatives - which saw them withdraw candidates in hundreds of Tory target seats - to help keep Labour out of power.
Speaking after the by-elections, former cabinet minister Sir Jacob said the Conservatives needed to focus on appealing to voters who had turned to Reform, adding that there was “a lot of common ground” between the two parties.
BBC analysis of major opinion polls shows a marked increase in the party’s support in recent months to an average of 10%, nearly double where it stood last year.
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Nigel Farage has said Conservative members would choose him as their leader over Rishi Sunak, after Reform UK had its best ever by-elections.
Mr Farage, Reform’s honorary president, said he would “have to” eventually end up in the same party as Conservative MPs like Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4’s The World at One: “I think if you ask Tory party members right now they’d vote for me to be leader and not Rishi Sunak.”
And he insisted there was “zero prospect” repeating the Brexit Party’s 2019 deal with the Conservatives - which saw them withdraw candidates in hundreds of Tory target seats - to help keep Labour out of power.
Speaking after the by-elections, former cabinet minister Sir Jacob said the Conservatives needed to focus on appealing to voters who had turned to Reform, adding that there was “a lot of common ground” between the two parties.
BBC analysis of major opinion polls shows a marked increase in the party’s support in recent months to an average of 10%, nearly double where it stood last year.
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