REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage has ruled out doing any deals with the Conservative Party and branded its leadership candidates as “delusional”.
He told GB News: “He wants me to retire. Jenrick says, ‘we want Farage to retire’. Well, there’s not a cat’s chance in hell of that. Let me assure you, they’re delusional. They’re delusional.
“They think, let’s get another leader, which, by the way would be the sixth leader since 2016. Let’s get a new leader, come out with some different policies, and somehow the public will all say ‘aren’t they wonderful, we’re going to come back to them’.
“What they don’t understand is it’s rather like a relationship. If you keep letting the other side down, in the end, the relationship’s broken.
“We’ve had manifesto promises in 2010, 2015, 2017, 2019 all of which have been broken. And there’s now a big swathe of 2019 Conservative voters who actually despise them, who feel really betrayed by it.”
He added: “Unlike Mr Jenrick and all the others, I’ve been utterly consistent for year after year in the principles and the things that I believe in.
“They genuinely think that Reform voters are coming back to the Conservatives, and they’re not. And something really quite big I think is going on out there.
“I’m not doing any deals with the Conservatives. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. Their brand is broken for many years to come.
“And remember, think back to when William Hague became the opposition leader to Tony Blair. No one listened to what the Tories had to say for years, and we’re back in that same kind of situation. They’ve made themselves irrelevant.
“Trust has gone and so my message to them is, ‘sorry guys but Reform is here to stay’. And interestingly, we’re not even thinking about Conservative voters. We’re thinking more about Labour voters.
“This is Robert Remainer Jenrick, or better known as Robert Generic because he’d stood for precisely nothing for years, who suddenly has discovered this new inner core.
“Now, it may be genuine, but when people have overnight political conversions, I’m always slightly suspicious, and let’s say he does win on a policy of leaving the ECHR, his parliamentary party will never, ever support that and that’s their other problem.
“One of the reasons the brand is broken is they’ve spent the last five years fighting with each other rather than standing up and fighting for things in the country that matter.
“So no, they’re split. They’re divided. Their brand is ruined.”