The Reform UK Leader says there are two months when she is most likely to be deposed.
Nigel Farage says Kemi Badenoch has a 50/50 chance of being out by Christmas (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
Nigel Farage mocked Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and predicted she will be out within months. In an exclusive interview for our new weekday show, The Daily Expresso, the Reform UK leader Farage interrupted host JJ Anisiobi as he mentioned the top Tory, joking: “Sorry, who’s that?” “Oh, I know, I saw her once on the telly,” he added. “She’s a Conservative isn’t she?” Told that Mrs Badenoch had accused him of “copying” the Tory plan for ending illegal migration, the Reform UK leader replied: “It’s a good job I wasn’t having a drink, I would have spat it out.”
He went on: “Look, they put in place plans like Rwanda, which could never be actioned because of our membership of the ECHR, which they refused to address.
“So they pass illegal migration acts. But if they’re not enforceable, what’s the point of it? “They have failed on this utterly.”
Mr Farage predicted Ms Badenoch will be forced out of her job within months.
“It will all be over by Christmas. She’ll be gone,” he said.
“I would put Kemi out by Christmas at 50/50. She may stay until May. I think in May they will be wiped out in Scotland, pretty much wiped out in Wales, and almost cease to be a national party. This is historic. What’s going on here is historic.
“This is a bit like the early 1920s eradication of the Liberal Party. You know, they’d won three general elections, consecutive elections before World War One, and they were gone, replaced by Labour, never to come back.”
Mr Farage said the Conservatives have “no credibility” on tackling illegal migration.
He was speaking to the Daily Expresso, a new weekday show launching today on YouTube, Apple and Spotify.
It is hosted by Express Assistant Editor JJ Anisiobi with regular co-hosts, including our columnists Carole Malone and Esther McVey, along with Belinda de Lucy, a former Brexit Party MEP.
Daily Expresso host JJ Anisiobi and Nigel Farage go head to head (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
Looking ahead to his party conference this weekend, Mr Farage told the show it will be about “professionalising” the party further with a focus on raising more funding and bringing in candidates to stand.
Pressed on whether he will announce some big name defectors at the gathering in Birmingham, he replied “well, you have to decide that yourself”
But he admitted how many Conservatives to let in was a “subject of internal debate”.
“We don’t want to be the Tory party 2.0 but equally, if those that come to us from the Conservatives add value, then we want them, if they see us as a potential meal ticket for the future, we don’t. That’s where I draw the line.”
But he said Labour MPs are so “sanitised” that the list of potential defectors is “very short”.
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