Voters punished the Conservative Party

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Nigel Farage’s party Reform UK mainly performed so well in the last elections because voters turned their backs on the ‘failed conservative government,” the founder and former leader of the UKIP party Professor Alan Sked says.   #UK #NigelFarage

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00:00OK, well he obviously isn't on this programme to defend himself, but you've got to hand

00:05it to him. He performed pretty well. His party, Reform UK, did pretty well in the July election.

00:10They got about 14% of the vote. I mean, he's got some charisma, hasn't he?

00:14Well, it depends what you mean by charisma. He's a good sort of populist figure who can

00:21rant and make hay with all sorts of difficulties in government. And I don't deny that he has

00:30achievements in getting the party where it is. On the other hand, there was really a

00:35reaction to 14 years of failed Conservative government. It's quite clear that the electorate

00:43at the last election was determined to vote for anybody really except for the Conservatives

00:49and they had the worst election results in history. This is the oldest democratic party

00:58in European politics and this was the worst result it had ever had.

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