Reform UK leader and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage took aim at Britain’s governing Labour Party on Friday, telling supporters his right-wing party was gaining voters disaffected with the government and would win the next election.
The 60-year-old self-described troublemaker hopes his party will be able to unseat Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government at the next election due in 2029 after it sapped support from the once dominant Conservatives in a vote earlier this year.
“The silent majority is already with us on the key issues that we care about … We can win the next general election just with the numbers of people that agree with our principles.”
With right-wing parties making in-roads across Europe, Reform, which won 4.1 million votes or 14% of the total and five seats in parliament in the July election, is on the march, growing from about 40,000 in early June to over 80,000 members. Labour has more than 350,000.
At a packed conference in the central English city of Birmingham, Farage was mobbed as he entered the hall, welcomed by a crowd of around 4,000 mostly elderly and white supporters who took to their feet to clap and chant “Nigel” repeatedly.
“One in four of those that voted Labour in the general election on July 4 … said … they are inclined to vote for Reform UK already,” Farage told a cheering crowd after walking onto a firework-lit stage.
