‘Unfinished business!’ Nigel Farage blasts state of UK post-Brexit on fifth anniversary: ‘Reform are the only ones who believe in it’
Nigel Farage has declared Brexit remains “unfinished business” as Britain marks five years since leaving the European Union, positioning Reform UK as the sole party truly committed to completing the project.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK leader said: “We never really left the web of Brussels, and that is the fault of the Conservative government. There were so many things that we stayed aligned to, including most of their rulebook.”
Farage insisted that achieving the Brexit people voted for requires “a government that believes in it, and the only party that really believes in it is Reform”.
He criticised both major parties, arguing that while Labour won’t take Britain back into the EU, their approach amounts to “Brexit in name only”.
In a scathing critique of Sir Keir Starmer, Farage warned that Labour’s “Remainer-in-Chief” is “determined to take Britain back into the orbit of the EU via the back door”.
He particularly criticised Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s handling of EU regulations, claiming she “spared thousands of EU regulations that were supposed to be thrown on a ‘Brexit bonfire’ from being burned”.
“The Conservatives are still split down the middle on this, as they’ve been all the way through,” Farage told GB News, suggesting the party’s commitment to Brexit was merely “about political convenience.”
The Reform UK leader argued that the Conservative government’s “unwillingness to light that Brexit bonfire” has given Starmer the opportunity to “crawl back to Brussels seeking a closer relationship”.
Reform UK’s political momentum has surged significantly, with party membership now exceeding that of the Conservative Party and approaching 200,000 members.
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Farage highlighted that successive opinion polls show Reform UK either tied with or ahead of Labour, transforming British politics into what he describes as “a three-horse race.”
“If you’re asking me, could we get an astonishing result at the next general election, that in historical terms, would be unprecedented, I really believe it’s possible,” he told GB News.
He insisted his party is “the only party looking forward to the next general election.”
When pressed by host Martin Daubney on whether then Prime Minister Boris Johnson “got Brexit done”, Farage admitted that in “many areas”, he did not.
Farage concluded: “Did people that voted for Brexit and then in 2019 voted for Boris Johnson get what they thought they deserved? The answer to that, sadly in many areas has to be no.
“That referendum had a turnout that stunned everybody. And one of the main reasons was to stop the open door and to reduce the sheer volume of numbers of people coming into Britain. And absolutely the opposite happened. So there’s disappointment on that.”
He added: “Right through business, from everything from financial services right down to fisheries, the idea that life would get easier, the regulations would go. Now, none of that has happened at all.
“I’m delighted we did it, it was the right thing. We’ve left a group of countries who bicker with each other constantly. But we haven’t grabbed the opportunities that it offered, and that is very, very disappointing.”