Nigel Farage has hit back at the Conservatives, accusing Kemi Badenoch's party of being "not on the right."
It comes after the Opposition leader told the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference yesterday took a swipe at the Reform UK leader, saying "strong men have lots of words but no plan. They promise everything and deliver nothing."
Opening his discussion with Canadian author Jordan Peterson earlier today at the ExCel Centre, the Clacton MP told the conference: "The right is not split in this country because the Tories are not on the right in any measurable way.
"We had 14 years that bought us the highest tax burden since 1947, 14 years that saw legal mass immigration on a scale hitherto never even dreamt of."
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during an interview with Jordan Peterson at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
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He continued: "We had 14 years that saw illegal immigration, small boats crossing the channel, and the government completely incapable of dealing with it because they couldn't face up to what membership of the European Convention on Human Rights was all about.
"We had 14 years that saw net zero enshrined into law by a Conservative government and Boris Johnson, Theresa May, who are as evangelical about net zero as the current Ed Miliband."
It comes after a new YouGov poll found that only 10 per cent of voters currently see the Tories as strong, while 61 per cent see them as weak. Reform UK does much better on this measure, with 31 per cent of voters calling Reform UK strong, and 27 per cent weak.
Meanwhile, only 18 per cent of voters say they think the Conservatives have a clear sense of purpose, 59 per cent say that's unclear. For Nigel Farage's party 49 per cent say it has a clear sense of purpose, while only 24 per cent say they are unclear on what the party stands for.
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Farage later added: "Our platform is to reindustrialise Britain. We’ve closed down our steel industry.
"We think closing down the steel industry is good because it means our national CO2 output is down.
"All that happens is the plant closes in Redcar, the plant closes in South Wales, it reopens in India under lower environmental standards, and then the steel is shipped back to us."
Speaking about birth rates, Farage admitted to Peterson he "may not necessarily be the best advocate for monogamous heterosexuality or stable marriage, having been divorced twice".
He said "what underpins everything is our Judeo-Christian culture" and continued: "Of course, we need higher birth rates, but we’re not going to get higher birth rates in this country until we can get some sense of optimism.
"And we need a complete 180 shift in attitudes."
