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Beyond Today

What’s it like at a Brexit Party rally?

Beyond Today

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Queen opened parliament today and set out the government’s main priority: to leave the EU by October 31st. Boris Johnson has set up his whole premiership on this very message, and one reason why is Nigel Farage. Now leader of the Brexit Party, Farage has always campaigned to get us out of the EU. Boris Johnson and the Conservative party are worried that if they can’t do this by the end of October they will lose votes to Farage in an election. To understand his enduring appeal we went to a Brexit Party rally in Watford. Presenter: Matthew Price Producer: Duncan Barber Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0

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0:06.2

Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

0:07.8

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.5

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

0:14.0

Today, what's it like at a Brexit Party rally?

0:27.0

This is an absolute knife edge moment for Brexit. Maybe this is it, the week that we get a deal

0:38.0

when Boris Johnson gets a vote through Parliament on Saturday when it's done and we leave on the 31st of October, just like the

0:45.5

Prime Minister promised. Do or die. There are reasons Boris Johnson has been so locked into the idea of leaving by the end of this month.

0:55.2

If he can do it, he sees it as a massive opportunity to call an election and then win five years in power.

1:02.0

But if he can't, then the man who's been a thorn in the side of the Conservative Party

1:07.4

for the last decade is ready to pounce. Not Corbyn, Johnson's polling a lot better than the Labour leader.

1:14.3

No, he's worried about Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party, who has a simple clear message

1:21.2

and he's had it for years. Let's just get out of the EU. If you want to find

1:26.2

out why Downing Street is concerned about Farage, then you just have to go to a Brexit party

1:32.0

rally. So on Thursday evening Duncan and I did you just that. you just that.

1:33.0

So on Thursday evening, Duncan and I did just that.

1:36.0

We caught the train out to Watford, which is becoming something of a battleground for the election that is clearly just around the corner.

1:41.0

The Prime Minister was there a few days before

1:43.7

promising money for the local hospital and now Nigel Farage was heading

1:48.8

there to the Langley Banqueting suite which is the sort of place you can hire for a wedding.

1:54.5

The website says it does Asian, Jewish and African weddings.

1:58.4

They do bomb itsfas as well, they do corporate events, and obviously they do political campaigns too.

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