00:00On a balmy British evening, Nigel Farage has brought politics to the pub.
00:07There's too many people. That's where it comes down, that's where it comes down to.
00:12The leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, and friend of Donald Trump, believes freezing
00:17non-essential immigration will help solve the UK's problems.
00:21We literally can't cope. We have a shortage of housing, healthcare, you know, we have
00:26a real problem.
00:27Your party says that Britain is broken. Why?
00:30Nothing works. Nothing works. We pay more and more tax, and we get lower and lower returns.
00:37The election on July 4th will be Nigel Farage's eighth attempt to win a seat in Parliament.
00:43And he's tipped to get it.
00:44I think he's a very good man. I like the way he speaks. He's a straight shooter.
00:51Farage is running in Clacton-on-Sea, where many locals want to stop the boats.
00:56He was known as Great Britain. You can forget about the great now.
01:02Clacton has high unemployment and small businesses are struggling. People here hoped Brexit would
01:07fix things, but it didn't.
01:10If the polls are right, the Labor party's on track to win a majority on July 4th, ending
01:1514 years of Conservative government. But the Reform party is hoping to be a dominant force
01:21in opposition. And that has the Conservatives worried.
01:25Reform poses a very significant threat to the Conservatives. But this is the Conservatives'
01:30fault. If they hadn't tried to attack the rights, if they'd concentrated on decent,
01:34sensible, moderate centre-ground policies, they would have had a better chance of stopping
01:38these catastrophic losses that they're facing.
01:41It's far from a done deal for Nigel Farage, though.
01:44I think he's a bit of a clown. He's all talk and no action.
01:51Farage angered many by saying the West provoked Russia to invade Ukraine, and some in his
01:56party have been accused of racism and homophobia.
01:59He's got all sorts of funny ideas, very extreme ideas, and I think realistically he just doesn't
02:03represent people around here.
02:07In a country where voting isn't compulsory, Farage must not only convince them to vote
02:12for him, but to bother voting at all.
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