Farage: I am now the ‘Leader of the Opposition’

After the first poll was published showing Reform ahead of the Tories, there was only one thing for Nigel Farage to do: hold an emergency press conference at the heart of Westminster. This afternoon journalists scrambled over to the Wellington Hotel to hear what Farage had to say after reaching the long-awaited ‘crossover’ moment when his party overtook the Conservatives. The Reform leader was on punchy form, branding himself the new ‘Leader of the Opposition’ and suggesting that ‘some of the polling industry were acting entirely dishonestly’ by not prompting for his party in surveys. He said that: ‘I’m pleased to say, as a result of my letter to the chair of the British Polling Council, they have been told now they really ought to be prompting for Reform.’

The former MEP then turned his attacks from the pollsters to the election broadcasters.