00:00On May the 7th, in the Midlands, Yorkshire, all the north of England, reform scored absolutely stunning victories
00:06in areas that Labour had dominated for the best part of 100 years.
00:12The sheer scale of our victory against Labour made it inevitable that this Prime Minister could not survive.
00:18And because of that, Burnham steps forward and wins, quite convincingly, the Makerfield by-election,
00:24ironically with the same message that we had in the local elections.
00:28Ours was vote reform, get Starmer out. His was vote Burnham, get Starmer out.
00:34Unbelievably, we're about to have our sixth Prime Minister in seven years.
00:40I remember growing up thinking Italy was totally ungovernable as they went through a new Prime Minister every year,
00:46and yet that's where we are here.
00:49Why is it all happening, and why did we get that big number of votes in the north of England?
00:53Well, ten years ago, on the 23rd of June 2016, we voted Brexit.
00:59Much of our political establishment has never accepted the result.
01:03And even those that reluctantly did, namely the Conservative Party, refused to implement what voters demanded,
01:10namely lower levels of immigration and more freedom for our sole traders and small businesses.
01:16They were just two of the benefits we could have taken, having got back self-governance.
01:22Under Starmer, the Labour Party has moved much closer back to the European Union,
01:27and if Mr Burnham wins, they'll go closer still.
01:30Which means Labour voters and the Labour Party are completely divided on this issue.
01:36But the bigger point today is that of a mandate, is that of legitimacy.
01:43I've no idea whether there'll be a contest or a coronation,
01:46but what I do know is the British public have simply had enough of political parties
01:52chopping and changing their leaders at will.
01:55We vote for somebody in a general election to be our Prime Minister.
02:00We expect them to serve their term.
02:02And barring ill health or exceptional circumstances, what is going on here, frankly,
02:08is reminiscent of a banana republic that has totally devalued the very process of general elections and democracy.
02:16I demand, we at Reform demand, a general election.
02:22After all, when the Conservatives were chopping and changing Prime Ministers,
02:26Labour kept saying there should be a general election.
02:30On that point, the Conservative Party say there's no need for a general election
02:35because they're part, frankly, of the Uniparty.
02:39It's as if the whole thing is a game.
02:42Labour did not actually carry out their mandate of 24.
02:46They did a whole number of things.
02:48A whole number of things.
02:49Whether it was the tax on family farms,
02:52the giving away of the Chagos Islands and much else that wasn't in the manifesto.
02:56If it is Mr Burnham, he didn't even stand at the last general election.
03:01Britain is broken.
03:03Six Prime Ministers in seven years should convince you of that fact.
03:07We are ready for a general election,
03:09and I suspect many of you, too, are ready for a general election.
03:14The thought we're going to go through.
03:16Weeks, maybe months, of paralysis
03:18in a country whose debt is rising faster than any country in the world,
03:23apart from Botswana,
03:24where the boats continue to come across the English Channel every day.
03:28The whole thing is not acceptable.
03:31Let's have a general election.
03:33Let's get a government with a clear democratic mandate.
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