Nigel Farage predicts he will be Britain’s next prime Minister in bombshell first forecast
Reform UK leader makes confident assetion as he speaks at a crypto conference in London
Nigel Farage has declared his belief that he is on course to be Britain’s prime minister, in a bombshell new forecast of the next general election. Breaking a major taboo not to come across overly confident or complacent, the Reform UK leader told a crypto conference in London that he now believes he will enter Downing Street after Sir Keir Starmer.
Asked by the host if he was speaking to the future prime minister, Mr Farage said: “Are you talking to the next prime minister? I think so, yes. “Politics is going through quite a revolution in our country at the moment, we’ve been used to two-party politics and it’s been there for a long time … Is this a reflection of my own incredible charisma, oratory, skills, track record? Or is it that I’m up against a bunch of absolutely useless, the worst political leaders we’ve ever seen in our lives?”
Farage said he is on course to replace Keir Starmer as PM (Image: Getty)
“Nothing works any more! Our tax burden is the highest it’s been since the end of World War 2, law and order in London is in decline, GDP per capita consistently falls quarter on quarter, and nothing is working. And if you criticise too much, as a result of the Online Safety Act, you’ll probably get a knock on the door from the police.
“So people are looking for a fresh alternative.”
Reform continues to ride high in the polls, with Labour’s vote being increasingly eaten up by the Greens and Lib Dems.
Last week, a new poll emerged showed Reform on 32% compared to Labour and the Tories’ 17%.
According to Election Maps UK, this would give Mr Farage a whopping 132-seat majority over all the other parties.
The Tories would be all but wiped out and left with just 27 seats, and Labour left with just 50.
The Lib Dems would be the official opposition, with 72 MPs, followed by the SNP on 40 and the Green Party on 36.
Mr Farage used the Digital Asset Summit to pledge that a Reform UK government would bring cryptocurrencies “in from the cold” with a new digital assets and crypto Bill, which the party’s already published.
He explained: “One of the reasons I am here today is my deep frustration that despite one speech by Rishi Sunak on this space, the government of the day have done nothing in this area.
“It’s very interesting that financial services in Britain, you can look at the City of London and think ‘well it’s really old-fashioned and traditional’. It’s always had its customs, but it’s always thrived through innovation. It’s been brilliant at developing new products over the centuries.
“And yet right now we’re in a situation where we have an FCA that seems to be there not necessarily protecting anybody, over-regulating financial services, such that we’re losing reinsurance businesses to Bermuda, etc
“And this whole area of digital assets and crypto just isn’t being talked about at all. We’ve got no regulated market – you need some regulation, a sensible level of regulation, not the ludicrous regulation we now have on equities and elsewhere.
“I guess the reason I was the first prominent person in British politics to talk about crypto, to try and legitimise crypto in 2020, is I could see this is the way it was going.”
