WATCH IN FULL: Reform will win 6 million votes - Christopher Hope sits down with Nigel Farage

WATCH IN FULL: Reform will win 6 million votes - Christopher Hope sits down with Nigel Farage
Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 03/07/2024

- 18:34

Updated: 04/07/2024

- 17:35

Reform UK is set to win as many as six million votes at the general election tomorrow, Nigel Farage has forecast in his final TV interview before polling day.

Speaking to GB News' political editor Christopher Hope, Farage said: "I am hoping it will be well well above 5 million. I think 6 million is very possible. Very, very possible. That's what I believe will happen."

Farage - who is standing in Clacton - refused to say how many MPs, if any, his party would be left with when the votes are tallied on Friday.

He said: "Will this get to will the seats we will be proportional? Probably not. And then Labour might get 37% of the vote and have the biggest parliamentary majority in history."

It could be that Reform UK only has a handful of MPs because of the vagaries of the UK's first past the post electoral system.In 2015, the UK Independence Party received 3.9million votes and yet was left with a single MP.

Farage forecast that "by this time next week the campaign for electoral reform will be in full cry. I know because I'm going to be part of it".

Elsewhere in the interview with GB News' Political Editor Christopher Hope, Farage denied that his party - which is polling at 20 per cent, ahead of the Tories on 16pc and behind Labour on 36pc according to a GB News People's poll today - was handing a landslide to Labour.

He said: "I would say maybe 25%, maybe 25% of our support will go to the Conservatives, 10 or 15 to Labour. The rest will stay at home and simply not bother.

Farage - who has only been leader of Reform UK for a month - said he would be launching a root and branch exercise to 'professionalise' Reform UK on Friday.

"I will starting on Friday professionalise Reform UK, democratise Reform UK, build a branch structure around the country," he said."The ambition is we establish this bridgehead tomorrow and then build a mass movement for real change."

On his friendship with US Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Farage claimed that he had recommended that the Trump camp speak to David Lammy, Labour's shadow foreign secretary.

He said: "The Trump team asked me about it and I said 'yes, do talk to David Lammy'.

"Even if your politics are different, our relationship with America in a world that's close to the global conflagration but has been for over 60 years is crucial."

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