{"id":482314,"date":"2025-10-08T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482314\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:01:11","slug":"nigel-farages-reform-a-threat-to-the-union-ni-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482314\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage&#8217;s Reform a threat to the union &#8211; NI Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jason Reid, deputy chair of the Northern Ireland Conservatives, acknowledged it was a &#8220;bit of a gaffe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said people at the conference have shown an interest in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think Kemi would admit herself that was a mistake, a bit of a gaffe of course,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the amount of stuff she&#8217;s having to get in her head to speak about here, I think that is something we can possibly overlook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservatives have no elected representatives in Northern Ireland, with the party receiving less than 1% of the vote in recent elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other main parties in Great Britain including Labour do not stand candidates in elections in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Reid, deputy chair of the Northern Ireland Conservatives, acknowledged it was a &#8220;bit of a gaffe&#8221;. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-482314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115337264093021191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}