Nigel Farage rules out election deal with Tories branding them ‘stuffy boring old b******s’ and claiming Net Zero will be major vote battleground_nhy
Nigel Farage ruled out an electoral pact with the Conservatives today as he branded the party’s MPs ‘stuffy boring old b******s’.
The Reform leader said he would rather his party replaced the Tories as the natural home of rightwing voters and questioned counterpart Kemi Badenoch‘s work ethic in a scathing attack.
Speaking at a Westminster event he suggested she ‘doesn’t know what hard work is’ and mocked other senior Conservative figures including Robert Jenrick, who has been among those most open to a pact with Reform.
In a wide-ranging speech to journalists Mr Farage also attacked the government’s ‘moronic’ Net Zero plans, saying they were likely to be a major battleground at the 2029 general election in the same way as Brexit dominated in 2019.
The Tories are struggling to make headway against Reform in the polls under Mrs Badenoch’s leadership.
In recent weeks there has been talk of the parties doing a deal, either officially or unofficially, to force Labour from power.
Sources close to the Reform UK leader told The Mail on Sunday last month that he would be open to working with the former PM Boris Johnson ‘in the national interest’.
But today Mr Farage said: ‘I have never met a more stuck up, arrogant out of touch group of people, than at least half of the Tory MPs. Stuff, boring old b******s.
‘And they should all be in the Lib Dems anyway. They don’t have a single conservative idea among them.’
The Reform leader said he would rather his party replaced the Tories as the home of rightwing voters and questioned counterpart Kemi Badenoch ‘s work ethic in a scathing attack.
Mocking Mrs Badenoch personally he said she ‘often works very hard in the afternoon for a few hours’.
In a wide-ranging speech to journalists he also said that Net Zero was likely to be a major battleground at the 2029 general election in the same way as Brexit dominated in 2019.
Mocking Mrs Badenoch personally he said she ‘often works very hard in the afternoon for a few hours’.
And he poked fun at Mr Jenrick, a former moderate turned right-winger, saying he was a ‘Nigel Farage impersonator’ to whom he recently offered tips.
One area where he and the Tories agree however is Net Zero.
Mr Farage said the drive to reduce emissions was ‘deindustrialising Britain at a rate that is almost beyond comprehension and it is making virtually zero difference to global CO2 production’.
He spoke as China-owned British Steel said it could close its two blast furnaces in Yorkshire as soon as June with the potential loss of up to 2,700 jobs, as US tariffs and environmental costs threaten to damage its already struggling operations.
British Steel, owned by China’s Jingye Group, has warned for years that steelmaking in Scunthorpe is loss-making, and has been in talks with the government for months about securing funding to switch to a greener type of steel production.
‘It is a collective lunacy, a group think that has overtaken the entire Westminster political class,’ Mr Farage added.
‘Net Zero at the next election will be the next Brexit.’
One person who might be going up against Mr Farage is one of his own daughters.
Discussing the growth in support of the Green Party on the political left he said: ‘Their voters are millennials like my daughter, who is a hard Left greenie until she asks for money from daddy every single month – funny that.’
Mr Farage has two daughters, Victoria and Isabelle, with ex-wife Kirsten Mehr.
