Nigel Farage says there is “not a cat’s chance in hell” he is set to retire soon after Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick admitted he is hopeful he does so.
The leader of Reform UK joined Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster to discuss the attacks he has received from Tory leadership hopefuls waking up to the threat his party poses.
Jenrick has been one of the more outspoken candidates on the matter – telling The Times last month he intends to ‘retire’ the 60-year-old should he take the reins.
But Nigel hit back this morning on GB News and even had some disparaging words for the 42-year-old, branding him ‘Robert Generic’.
Jenrick (centre-right), Kemi Badenoch (centre-left), James Cleverly (right) and Tom Tugendhat (left) are all locking horns in the Conservative leadership racePA
“Jenrick said he wants me to retire. There’s not a cat’s chance in hell of that”, he said.
“They’re delusional. They think they can get a new leader, come out with some new policies and the public will say, ‘we’ll come back to them’.
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“What they don’t understand is, if you keep letting the other side of a relationship down, the relationship is broken.
“We’ve had Tory manifesto in promises in 2010, 2015, 2017, 2019, all broken, and now a lot of their voters despise them.”
Nigel then compared himself to the Tory leadership contenders, saying that he has been “utterly consistent” in his views throughout the years, something that cannot be said for them, he believes.
“They genuinely think Reform voters are coming back to the Tories, they’re not”, he said.
Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster were joined on GB News by Nigel Farage
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“There’s something big happening out there. I’m not doing any deals with the Conservatives, I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them.
“My message to them is, sorry guys but Reform is here to stay. We’re not even thinking about Conservative voters at the moment, we’re thinking about Labour voters.”
Farage has haunted the Tory conference this week with attendees holding differing opinions.
While James Cleverly has hit out at Farage for wanting to “destroy” the Conservatives, former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg wants his party tighter connections.
Nigel continues to be a thorn in the side for the Tories after snatching a significant portion of votes from them in the July General Election.
Their exploits across the country culminated in the Tories delivering a historically poor General Election result, and now Nigel has Labour in his sights.