NIGEL Farage is preparing for a massive rally in Birmingham to kick off the final days of the general election campaign.
Mr Farage will launch Reform’s final push before polling day when he speaks to 5,000 supporters at the NEC in Birmingham, joined by ex-Brexit Party MEP and Strictly Come Dancing star Ann Widdecombe as well as entrepreneur and Reform donor Zia Yusuf.
Mr Farage said: "If Tory voters, who have watched with horror their party implode after 14 years of betrayal and incompetence, want a real opposition to Starmer, they need to vote Reform UK.
"And Labour voters, who may have been worried about letting the Tories back in but don't agree with Labour's complete lack of patriotism or their obsession with wokery, should also vote Reform UK for a break with the two-party corruption of the past.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rebuild Broken Britain. If you love your country - as I do - this time, vote with your heart."
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Some surveys have suggested Reform could win as many votes as the Conservatives on Thursday but an average of all polls over the past week puts Labour on 41%, Conservatives on 21%, Reform on 16%, the Lib Dems on 12% and the Greens on 6%.
Conservatives and Labour both stepped up criticism of Reform after an undercover Channel 4 investigation recorded an activist making racist comments about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Mr Farage, standing for election in Clacton, says the expose was “a political set-up of astonishing proportions”,
Tory security minister Tom Tugendhat said: “There is a real pattern of racist and misogynistic views in the party. I think it’s absolutely right to call it out.”
And Conservative Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch urged wavering Tories considering backing Reform to think again. She said Reform was made up of “people who are not fit to make the decisions about your life”
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Farage of failing to show leadership. Sir Keir said: “If you lead a party you set the tone, and the culture, and the standards of your party, and I don’t think he’s done enough.”
Channel 4 footage showed Reform campaigner Andrew Parker using a racist term about Mr Sunak and suggesting migrants should be used as “target practice”.
Mr Sunak has described the incident as “shocking” but Mr Farage highlighted Mr Parker’s background as an actor and claimed the report was a “set-up, a deliberate attempt to smear us”.
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