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285: Will Nigel Farage destroy the Tories?

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how the Reform UK leader is shaking up the General Election, the lawfare against Trump and the Islamist stabbing in Mannheim.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week we have

0:04.3

Spikes editor Tom Slater and the director of the Ecuano Project Inaya Falarin Iman.

0:09.4

Hi.

0:10.4

Loes to discuss on the podcast today.

0:12.6

We'll bring you the latest from the general election,

0:14.2

including the shock entry of Nigel Farage.

0:17.4

Plus, we'll talk about the law fair against Donald Trump

0:20.4

and the Islamist stabbing in Mannheim in Germany.

0:24.0

Nigel Farage made a huge announcement this week,

0:31.0

really setting the cat amongst the pigeons he has taken over as the

0:34.0

leader of the Reform Party and it's going to stand for Parliament for a seat in

0:38.8

Clacton. Innai you ran as a Brexit party candidate in the last election.

0:44.8

I mean, I know the Brexit party is a slightly different beast to the Reform Party,

0:48.7

but what do you think Nigel's announcement might mean for this election?

0:51.7

Could it really, really you know change things

0:53.2

potentially I think it will change things I think you know at least when I stood for

0:58.3

the Brexit party in 2019 you know that was a particular single issue campaign but the reason that it became such a defining

1:07.2

election around Brexit was because as many of us know and have spoken about

1:11.6

so many people in the political establishment tried to overturn the vote, the biggest

1:15.8

expression of democracy in a generation. And part of that vote was to transform the political and economic settlement to make our political leaders much more sensitive to the concerns and interests of the populace and the realization that so many communities had been decimated over the last few decades and very

1:35.5

little had been done about it.

1:37.5

And so lo and behold, you know, five years later, the sadly the aspiration of Brexit has not really been realized and I think that's why the space is still open for figures.

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