Reform UK hail 'meteoric rise' in Welsh by-election

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Reform Chairman David Bull said “At the last election, we got 1.7% and this morning we got 36%. That’s a meteoric rise by any standards, in fact it's pretty it's unprecedented in modern British political history.” Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I mean clearly we're disappointed but actually when you look at it we've done amazingly well.

00:05Four years ago we got 1.7 percent. Last night or this morning we got 36 percent. That's a meteoric

00:10rise I think by any standards. In fact I think it's pretty unprecedented in modern British

00:16political history. But what it does actually show is that people are turning away from the two

00:22parties, the main parties, from Labour. This was a traditionally tribally Labour part of the country.

00:28Labour got 11 percent. I mean that's just appalling. The Tories wiped out at 2 percent. They might as

00:34well pick up the ball and go home because they obviously didn't feature in this election. I'm

00:39actually doing a chairman's tour around the country. I've seen 5,000 people in the last four months.

00:44Two days ago in Liverpool again a very very traditionally Labour seat. They got 84 percent of

00:51the vote in 2017. That has been decimated down to 42 percent. In the last year alone since Keir

00:57Starmer took office they've dropped 20 percent. And that's what we're seeing around the country

01:02whether it's in Wales or in Scotland or in England. People say I've had enough. This

01:06country is in terminal decline and we need something different. And that's why in

01:09Wales this was actually a two horse race between Plaid and us.

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