Reform UK’s Richard Tice claims Tory MPs ‘terrified’ of his party and urges Sunak to call election

Reform UK’s Richard Tice claims Tory MPs ‘terrified’ of his party and urges Sunak to call election

This year rishy sunak says we’ll get an election but his opposition isn’t just labor the liberal Democrats are grasping for a number of Tory seats and on the right he’s being squeezed by the Reform Party let me now introduce reform UK’s party leader Richard Ty he hasn’t got the name recognition of

The party’s honorary president Nigel farage but he has now got a 10% support in the polls the Tories are terrified and with that a warning there’s no special deals we stand in every single seat in England Scotland and Wales Richard Ty warned of starmageddon under labor and announced their own policies

Raising the level at which income taxes paid scrapping Net Zero carbon emissions targets and a one inone out system for immigration policies he said that have already caught the eye of some sitting Tory MPS at some point some of them are going to say we’re in the wrong party

And have some of them already said that we’ had we’ve had a number of interesting discussions very pleasant very genial I’m obviously going to keep those confidential I won’t confirm or deny anything but it’s not just you saying conversations have happened of course they have happened with M with

MPS posing for the cameras at the last election nowhere to be seen today though Nigel farage where told is still tossing up what role he’ll play posters and Tor MP say the farage actor would sway things dramatically in harleypool though where the party leader is running Richard Ty

Isn’t a household name do you know who that man is uh no no sorry I don’t his name is Richard Ty he’s from the Reform Party have you heard of the Reform Party no do you know who that is no I don’t do you know who that is oh yes um farz or

Whatever his name yeah Richard T well well done you’re the first one today all right yeah reforms say they are taking voters from the conservatives and labor pollsters say it’s the Tories who stand to lose most for every voter they L to the labor party they’re also losing one

To reform at the moment and that trend has been going in One Direction so we’ve seen reform double their vote share on this time last year and I think the big question for Rishi sunak is whether that continues and whether that gets worse if farage returns and ultimately does that

End up benefiting labor more than than anyone else I think the ultimate beneficiaries will be labor even if labor do lose some of their own voters to reform as well if you get a few MPS would you be willing to go into Coalition with the conservatives to keep

Them in Downy Street look we get the more MPS that we get then the more influence we will have look at them who say look what is what is an absolute uh guarantee is we’re not doing a deal with the tourers before the election but after the election well let’s wait and

See what people vote I want the Tes to be ousted they have to be punished for the failure for the way they’ve broken Britain wait a minute you’ve just gone from we might think about a deal after the election no I didn’t say that I

Didn’t say that I said they’ve got to be punished they’ve got to be ousted so you want them to be punished you want them to be ousted but then after they’ve been ousted you might help put them back in that’s not no that’s not what I what I’m

Saying is people have got to vote for us they’ve got to vote for reform UK so tell me no tell me right now that you wouldn’t do a deal with them I’m look I’m focusing on before the election let’s hope we get as many MPS as possible

Look I’m more optimistic than you we’ve got to go you’ve got to be an optimist in politics particularly in the new year you’ve got to go for it and that’s what we’re doing it’s not a no gotcha the last lot to do that deal today I’m launching Ed Davis Tory

Removals say Tory seats in the South and Southwest are theirs for the taking with reform and the actual official opposition labor The Assault on the conservative party is advancing from every angle with me now is Rosie Campbell who’s professor of politics at King’s College London how much of an electoral

Force do you think that reform UK is with or without Nigel farage well I think they could have a significant impact I I think it’s very unlikely that they’re going to break through and have any significant number of MPS I mean without farage would be very

Surprised if they get any MPS at all but sorry but do you think he might win a seat I I just think politics is so unpredictable that a very high-profile character like Nigel fragi wouldn’t want to put bets on him not being able to win a well targeted seat although he’s tried

Several times and has again yeah sorry I I interrupt your flow I think the key thing is that how they’re going to divide the conservative vote because already um you know without Nigel farage they are taking away SE by taking away votes or supporters from from the Tories

In the red wall constituencies that they would really dearly like to hang on to so I think that’s going to be the main factor and I think that they can have that impact with or without Nigel farage come back to the red wall in just a

Second but if the Tories move further to the right to try and you know dampen the effect of Reform UK will that H will that work or will it even them more vulnerable to labor I think it’s a really interesting question because I think that’s what the pr pressure from

Reform is decid is is designed to do it’s designed to try and shift the Tories to the right but the Tories have got to fight in two fronts in this election they’ve also got to think about the blue wall and those traditionally safe conservative states in the

Southeast in Su that they under threat from Liberal Democrats so that makes it very very difficult they’re sandwiched in between in this way it’s kind of squishy Ry isn’t it he’s he’s squished in between the the lib demms in the southern blue wall and labor in the in

You know by reform actually in northern red wall so so I mean how much of a sort of pins movement is that how how detrimental do you think that will be I think it’s it could be catastrophic and I think I’m interested in what the strategy of the Reform Party is is it

About trying to set her agenda agenda for the future which actually makes the conservative party after the next election shift much further to the right so is it about saying anti- Net Zero really making immigration a really key issue and actually not so focused on what happens at this election but really

Focused on what UK politics looks like going into the future sort of skin in the game for a future conservative leadership contest indeed um I mean obviously their previous Incarnation used to be the brexit party it’s now it’s about well some of the issues you just talked about Net Zero it’s about

Tax immigration culture wars too isn’t it and I think that’s the idea of wrapping all of these themes together is quite key to the appeal because to some extent brexit you know has massively fallen down the political agenda and yet it’s become associated with this kind of anti-woke politics so I think that

Branding is quite tactical and probably quite sensible on the part of the Reform Party we saw a few uh women questioned in Paul’s piece there and they didn’t know who Richard TI was um is reform appealing more to men than women absolutely and traditionally the brexit party ukip about two-thirds of their

Voters have been men traditionally slightly older men and and that appeal remains this day I mean you talked about the potential sort of catastrophic impact to use your word of Reform um in is I mean some of the recent polls put their support as high as 11% but the

General election is still going to be a two horse race isn’t it well indeed but I think what matters is that the conservative party needs to try and hold together a coalition of Voters and so the Breakthrough in the red wall those 31 seats that they want to hang on to as

Many as they possibly could actually they they’re going to lose a greater number of those if reform are actively securing that 101 percentage points of the votes so yes it’s going to look I think when we look at the final tally largely like a conservative labor race but actually what happens in those

Individual constituencies is going to really matter with the other parties

Rishi Sunak is facing more calls from his political opponents to call an election early this year. On his left flank, the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told a campaign rally in Guildford that the Prime Minister should stop “clinging on to power.”

From the right, the Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice claimed that Conservative MPs are “terrified” of his party and urged Rishi Sunak to call an election “as soon as possible”.