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Nigel Farage<\/a> has demanded an immediate general election<\/a>, claiming Andy Burnham<\/a> has no mandate to run the country.<\/p>\n

The Reform UK leader said his party could produce a “historic upset”, but Mr Farage warned that if he fails to enter No 10<\/a>, Britain<\/a> risks “turning into a third world country” within 10 years. <\/p>\n

He added that “nothing will get better under Andy Burnham”, who will become prime minister<\/a> on Monday after being confirmed as the new leader of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n

Mr Farage, who is fighting a by-election<\/a> in Clacton after resigning as an MP<\/a> in protest at parliamentary and media scrutiny of his finances<\/a>, said: \u201cThe only certainty with Burnham is we\u2019re going to get more of the same, but they\u2019ll go further to the left than they already are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BurnhamBurnham was confirmed as the new leader of the Labour Party on Friday (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Burnham) says he wants to have the biggest change of direction in politics in 40 years, outside of 25,000 voters in Makerfield he has literally no mandate for this at all,\u201d Mr Farage added.<\/p>\n

Mr Burnham has said he will stick to Labour\u2019s 2024 manifesto commitment not to increase income tax<\/a>, national insurance or VAT.<\/p>\n

But in a speech to the CPAC GB conference in London, Mr Farage said: \u201cTaxes are going to rise and there\u2019s talk, of course, of property taxes, which will collapse the housing market<\/a>, especially in London and the South East, but it\u2019ll do great damage elsewhere in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cTop rate tax, I\u2019ve no doubt, will go up and all of these things are happening for a man that has no mandate whatsoever.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn immigration, he\u2019s never shown the slightest concern about what\u2019s going on and of course, do we think Andy Burnham will take us out of the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights), so we\u2019re back fully in control of our borders? Not a hope in hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FarageFarage is fighting a by-election in Clacton after resigning as an MP in protest at parliamentary and media scrutiny of his finances (Getty)<\/p>\n

The Reform leader said there \u201cmust be an immediate general election so the country can decide the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Farage said Reform UK was well-placed to win the \u201cbattle for the soul of our nation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe managed to raise more money last year than any other political party and we are genuinely doing everything we can to get ready to fight that next general election, whenever it begins, and to win it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I believe we can win it. I believe an historic upset is on the cards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the British people have simply had enough of weak, gutless, spineless leadership that cares more about opinion in the international community than it cares about the collective good of the people living in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Farage claimed that if Reform failed to win the next election, the UK would \u201cgo bust\u201d and \u201cI honestly believe we\u2019re less than a decade away from effectively turning into a third world country, and I will be damned if I\u2019m going to see that\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[6764,12137,11020,173,6355,16170,7942,4634,6034,95,6767,14,6769,408,7609,27216,5,6],"class_list":["post-85136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-color-image","tag-conservative-political-action-conference","tag-day-2","tag-england","tag-horizontal","tag-hotel","tag-leader","tag-leadership","tag-london-england","tag-nigel-farage","tag-photography","tag-politics","tag-politics-and-government","tag-reform-uk","tag-summit-meeting","tag-talking","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116937075899604990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}