Reform UK: the party frightening the Tories from the fringes
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Today, who are Reform UK and why do they want to destroy the Conservative Party? Today in focus is supported by Virgin Atlantic. |
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| 1:19.7 | Sale runs until 31st of of January terms and conditions apply. They say they want to obliterate the Tories in the next general election, |
| 1:35.0 | that they will lure disillusioned voters to their message and make Britain great again. |
| 1:41.0 | The party chaired by Nigel Farage but currently led by a man |
| 1:45.9 | few people have heard of is promising to shake up the electorate with hardline views |
| 1:50.5 | on immigration, climate change and and the apparent scourge of socialism sweeping |
| 1:56.1 | the country. |
| 1:57.7 | The Tories have become like the Labour Party, two sides of the same socialist coin. |
| 2:05.0 | We've got record high taxes, we've got record high wasteful government spending |
| 2:11.0 | and yet disastrous outcomes. Reform UK may yet be a tiny |
| 2:16.8 | outfit run more like a business than a political party but the threat they |
| 2:21.5 | pose to mainstream political debate and to the shape and strength of the Conservative |
| 2:26.2 | Party, well that could be massive and they have the Tories worried. |
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