Nigel Farage: 'The Tories are a busted flush, but can Starmer's Labour do better?'

The questions tonight I want to ask is, can Labour be better than the Conservatives in government?

I say that because Rishi Sunak's list of achievements that he pointed out to us in his New Year speech didn't impress me.

He began by saying we have record funding for the NHS and social care. Well yes, that is true, the projected budget this year for the NHS alone is £168 billion.

But it doesn't matter what you spend if the waiting list is now approaching 8 million people.

He then went on to say that schools in England are surging up the global league tables. That's quite a claim.

It's true that from 2008 to 2018 there were improvements in the education system, we've basically marked time since that moment.

But the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) say that across a range of countries, educational standards have gone down and our maths marking showed the worst results since 2006.

He then tells us he's getting the economy growing. It's barely grown at all over the course of the last six months and each revision seems to move the number downwards, which is perhaps why inflation is falling the way that it is.

Because we're actually gonna go into a recession. His pledge to cut inflation by half? He is achieving that.

Unbelievably he also talked about the biggest business tax cut in modern British history.

That's the couple of pennies off National Insurance for employers.

This after, in the very same calendar year, he put corporation tax up for every firm from a local launderette to big businesses by 30%.

The tax burden for businesses and for individuals is the highest that it's been for over 70 years. I am absolutely sick to death.

Sick to death of how disingenuous it seems the Prime Minister and all of his ministers are. They present us with spin, with things that simply are not true.

But the question is, would Keir Starmer be any better?

Some very big claims from Sir Keir Starmer as to what he's going to do if and when he wins the next general election. Nothing is changing.

The Conservatives are consistently 18 to 20 points behind. Technically, the election could go until January of next year, but I think it's 95% likely it'll be in this calendar year.

In fact, it could even be 50/50 whether they decide to go for a May election knowing that the legal immigration figures when they come out will be even higher than the 745,000 net figure last year.

And of course, once we get good weather, the small boats will start to come again.