Tories have betrayed Britain & Reform won’t stand aside, Farage says as he hits out at immigration ‘lies’

NIGEL Farage has told Rishi Sunak he would “under no circumstances” do a deal to stand his candidates down – blasting years of Tory “betrayal” on Brexit and immigration.

The new Reform leader insisted there would be no pact similar to what he struck with Boris Johnson in 2019.

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Nigel Farage said Labour has ‘already won’ the election and voters should choose something they ‘really believe in’[/caption]

The leading Brexiteer said the Tories had already lost the election and were a “party of the past”.

He said there wouldn’t be an agreement where he stood down hundreds of Brexit Party candidates to allow Boris Johnson to win a stinking 80-seat majority.

And he insisted talk of a deal with the Tories on our Never Mind The Ballots show was “rhetorical” and no approach on either side had been made.

When asked if he would stand aside for Tories, he told the BBC: “Nope. There are no circumstances whatsoever.

“We have been betrayed by a Conservative Party that I gave considerable help to back in 2019 and boy did I.

“I got rid of Mrs May by forming the Brexit Party and they had their most crushing defeat in 200 years.

“I stood aside in over 300 seats for Boris Johnson and we were told that we would get control of our borders, we were told the immigration numbers would come down. They have exploded.

“I feel betrayed by them, millions of voters feel betrayed by them and even though there are some people in the Conservative Party who I fought with during Brexit and other battles, I am afraid they are part of a party who are well past their sell-by date.

“The brand is ruined, they have lost the election already.”

Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Farage was asked by Ed Balls: “You were on The Sun TV last week talking to Harry Cole, you said ‘I’ve done (the Tories) some huge favours as a party, give me something back’.

But Farage insisted he had received no calls from the Conservatives at all, adding his answer on Never Mind The Ballots was “rhetorical”.

He went on: “I did help them enormously back in 2019 and what they’ve done is betrayed that trust.

“Not from the Conservative Party itself. The only phone calls I’ve really had are people saying, ‘Please don’t stand against me’.

“Nothing constructive whatsoever. Remember, at the heart of the Conservative Party, they loathe me, they always have.

“I cannot do a deal with people who betrayed my trust.”

He went on: “Let’s face it Ed, Labour have won the election already. It’s over.

“The question is who is the voice of opposition going to be that you need in a healthy democracy, and it can’t be the Conservative Party.

“They’ve spent most of the last four years fighting each other instead of fighting for the country, and I believe the time is now right for a political revolt and a new movement in British politics that is much closer to ordinary folk.

“Our aim, our ambition, and what I’m going to try and do is be that voice of opposition in the next Westminster parliament.

“The long-term aim is to build a political movement that can challenge in the 2029 General Election.”

Farage also insisted he would not be spending much time during the campaign in America, where he has become a key campaigner for Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Mr Farage said: “I clearly could not spend much time in America if I was in Westminster.

“Doesn’t mean I could not go at all but certainly it would be a change of priorities.”

Yesterday we revealed the campaigner is pencilled in to give one speech at a Trump rally later this month in Detroit but will attempt to arrive and leave the USA within hours.

Meanwhile, Home Secretary James Cleverly said he was surprised by Mr Farage standing at the election

He told Sky News:  “The last time I heard him make reference to Clacton, he was saying that he didn’t want to spend every Friday in Clacton.

“Reform has always been a vehicle for Nigel Farage‘s self-promotion, I think Richard Tice is now discovering that rather painfully.”