Could Farage crush the Tories?

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This afternoon a wildcard was thrown into the election – the return of Nigel Farage. He will be standing for the Reform party at Clacton, the one parliamentary seat that Ukip had held. What will this mean for the Conservatives? James Heale talks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Cindy Yu.

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0:17.8	Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots.
0:22.2	I'm James Seal. I'm joined today by Katie Bals and Fraser Nelson.
0:25.4	Now today Katie it's been something of Rishicinac's nightmare day.
0:28.4	First of all we had the news that Nigel Farage was making his shock comeback return
0:32.4	he's standing in Clacton and coming back as
0:34.4	a reform leader. And then about an hour later we had this news of this disastrous MRP
0:38.3	PACE. Tell us more about both.
0:40.3	Yeah, so I think of course we had Nijrefurrage initially say when the campaign, when the election was
0:46.6	first called that he was not going to be making a return to frontline politics, he was not
0:50.6	standing for re-election, and he said that he blamed the Tories
0:53.8	the calling an election when they did, how dead again his way, had he had time he
0:57.8	would have done it for the autumn and he also said you know his main interest
1:02.0	like lay in America Now since he said that I think there was
1:05.6	some frustration from the reform side that the comments actually went too far
1:09.6	and were pretty unhelpful to their campaign. Today we got the news first thing that there was
1:14.4	going to be a surprise announcement from Niger Farage. Then we had the
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