The Conservative Party is out of touch with voters and the candidates vying for the leadership are "desperate", according to Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice.
So far, six Conservative MPs, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Tom Tugendhat have thrown their hat in the ring to be the next leader of the party.
Asked if the contenders for the leadership were right to rule out a deal with Reform UK, Tice told GB News: "They're all frankly desperate in their own sort of sweet way. No one's really interested in what's going on in the Tory party.
"They got annihilated in the election. They seem completely invisible. We're the only people that are actually talking about immigration.
Richard Tice said that the Tory Party is "out of touch"
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"Priti Patel seems to have completely given up on it. She's proud of her record of emboldening mass immigration between 2021 and now, and she won't even leave the ECHR. These are things about which, actually the majority of the British people are settled.
"I just think they're out of touch and the real issue which is what the Labour Party is doing with taxpayers’ cash. We're now on a sort of an escalator ever upwards of union demands for ever bigger pay rises, and that's going to be a catastrophe for the UK's finances."
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He added: "What you do in the private sector, when you talk about pay rises above inflation, you say, ‘well, there's got to be some productivity improvements, there's got to be some performance-related element to it’.
"It works in the private sector, you get growth, and that's what we need.
"We need some productivity and we need some performance in the public sector, the truth is, as the wage bill goes up, the number of people working in the public sector goes up.
"Productivity is collapsing and it is sending our taxes to 70-year highs. And yet, what works out there? The truth is, almost nothing does work.
Priti Patel is one of the candidates with her hat in the ring
GB News"You're seeing a sort of, just a never-ending, leapfrog process between the unions in the public sector to get ever higher pay rises.
"He claimed that prosecutions of people over the unrest since the Southport murders show that there is a two-tier justice system: “I think it's ridiculous.
"I've been one of the strongest critics of these policies.
"It seems that you can rape people and not go to jail.
Richard Tice spoke to Chris Hope on GB News
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"But if you put out a piece of information that you in all seriousness thought was genuine, it turns out to be incorrect, if you're from the right, then you get arrested.
"If you're from the left, from one of those various organisations like Hope Not Hate…talk about [threats of] acid being thrown over a woman, absolutely appalling.
"We've got two-tier politics, two-tier policing, and two-tier justice, and it's a very, very dangerous, slippery road to be going down."
