Nigel Farage

I am here to say to you, hand on heart, that I did not lie to the House when those statements were made.

Clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new Prime Minister.

I'm delighted to announce that I have found that champion of the Red Wall for Reform UK.

He's also, coincidentally, going to be Reform UK's first Member of Parliament in the House of Commons.

He is, of course, a person of great integrity, no-nonsense, and is the Member of Parliament in the County of Nottinghamshire for Ashfield.

Please welcome Mr Lee Anderson.

to decide whether we want to build on the progress we have made or risk going back to square one with no plan and no certainty.

I'm coming back as leader of Reform UK, but not just for this election campaign.

I'm coming back for the next five years.

This businessman, Aaron Banks, whom nobody'd heard of, was giving £100,000 to UKIP.

journalists were summoned from the Conservative conference, which was still going on, I think, in Birmingham, to this manor house just outside Bristol, at one of Aaron Banks' homes.

I was among them.

And we turned up and we assumed they were going to announce a new defector.

But no, there we were.

We were greeted by Aaron Banks.

Perhaps the most expensive thing that William Hay ever said.

Banks was the only political person, you could say, who ended up being a close friend of Nigel Farage.

He's a very engaging character.

You know, he's always got a grin on his face.

He's always got something to say.