Henry Riley
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357 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Henry Riley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, that's right.
Morning, uh Claire.
There there's a few things to to do with this, really.
I mean, we had a planned speech uh at half past ten, eleven o'clock that he was due to give.
That's been cancelled, and then we found out that he was not going to come to the declaration, which is so unusual.
I mean, prime ministers, cabinet ministers come to uh see what has happened, come to pop into the count to make a speech and to really sort of bask in the glory of winning.
And Nigel Farage won.
He won comfort.
comfortably and it's led to an almighty row, a sort of war of words really.
with Essex Police because the first we heard was Nigel Farage speaking at Farage Fest, which was a sort of um he called it Clacktonbury, a sort of play on on Glastonbury Festival where there were sort of big ferris wheels and whatnot.
And he gave a speech about two o'clock in the morning where he was saying that he had had discussions with Es Essex Police and there were some pretty unsavoury characters who could be in the vicinity.
And so he decided that he wasn't going to
um wasn't going to attend the counts.
And then we had the spokesperson for reform saying that he'd been advised by Essex Police.
Now we put that to Essex Police, who said they had a sort of robust procedure in place for candidates, but we understand don't advise candidates whether to attend the counts or not.
And so you've got Nigel Farrar saying one thing and Essex police completely contradicting him on the other hand.
That's certainly what the critics are are arguing and speculating on.
Um he has sort of been next to satirical candidates before, the pub landlord Al Murray, the comedian.
Um he's sort of had countless monster raving loony party candidates, as your reporter uh pointed out.
Um but yeah, I mean that is certainly the the suggestion that he it was almost sort of two fingers up at the at the media and the p political establishment, actually, because
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