Is Reform ready for power?
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The Times
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As Reform’s conference begins today, the party leads the opinion polls. Nigel Farage is attempting to portray himself as the next Prime Minister, but in places they already hold power - ten councils and two mayoral authorities - there have been hints of serious problems, from failed cost cutting measures to infighting and resignations. So is Reform ready for power?
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| 1:29.2 | Reform begins its party conference today, after a summer in which it's been gaining momentum, leading the polls and setting the political weather. |
| 1:36.4 | Today we launch Operation Restoring Justice. I saw a prime minister in waiting. I saw somebody prepared to take on the mainstream media and the left. TikTokers, 1.3 million followers now. |
| 1:41.8 | Gen Z want to vote reform. You know, I come from the land of |
| 1:45.5 | Magna Cotta, I come from a land that gave us the mother of parliaments, and it doesn't give me any |
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