Could Reform Use The Navy To Stop Small Boats?
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Henry, I think this is the first time that we've had you back on Newscast since the horrendous news of the cancellation of Celebrity Mastermind.
I'm too upset to speak about it, James. Not that I would ever have presumed that my campaign, my come and get me plea delivered via Newscast was going to actually work. But I guess now we'll never know whether it would have worked or not. We will never know. And the question, I suppose, is what other show are you going to go on instead? Well, I was speaking to a certain Adam Fleming, not on Newscast, in real life, because that does happen occasionally too. And he said to me, oh, you'd have to go on Christmas University Challenge next. And I said, oh, you know, I'll never get to do that. And it turns out Adam's done that as well as Celebrity Mastermind. Yes, he has. That's right. He has. He has too. Well, it's going to have to be Strictly then.
I think you do actually have to be an actual celebrity to go on Strictly. So I don't think I'm in danger of getting that, I think I have to say in my case, resistible offer anytime soon.
Yeah, that's not a firm denial, I note. Anyway, Henry's mastermind subject today, at least, is Reform UK. And also we'll be talking about immigration because of those remarkable pictures coming out of people crossing over into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta or Ceuta on the North African coast. So that is coming up later on in this episode of Newscast. Newscast.
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You know I like my buses. I'll come on to them. I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town.
Ooh la la. Thinking about it like a panto helped.
Do we play music now or what do we do?
And what will you do? Stare at a wall. Hello, it's James in Glasgow. And hello, it's Henry in Westminster. Now, Henry, we can go on to what Reform UK have actually announced today, in a minute, because they held this news conference and there was news from the news conference. But before that, it's fair to say they've had a tough old time, Nigel Farage and his crew, over the past few months, haven't they? What's been going on? Yeah, absolutely.
There's been an escalating intensity, I think, of news. questions for Nigel Farage and in some instances for other leading figures in Reform UK about Nigel Farage's finances and about the financing of Reform UK. And the big question facing Nigel Farage, which has only grown over the past few months is the circumstances of the £5 million gift which he received from Christopher Harborne, Thai-based crypto billionaire, in the run-up to the 2024 general election, which Nigel Farage insists was fraudulent. completely independent of his subsequent decision to re-enter politics and get elected, as he ultimately managed to do in the 2024 general election as the MP for Clacton. Obviously, there is a by-election going on in Clacton, which Nigel Farage called essentially because of the questions that he has been facing and the parliamentary standards investigation.
that he has faced about those matters. But I think what you saw from Reform UK today was an attempt, especially in the slightly quieter news environment of the summer where Parliament isn't sitting, to regain the initiative on a policy area where they are at their most comfortable.
Yeah, they've reached for the lever marked immigration, which is standard fare, I suppose, if you're in Reform UK and you feel you're in trouble, because it is very much at the heart of their appeal to voters, certainly the heart of their perceived appeal to voters. And they made this announcement today, Henry, that if Reform UK were to win power, if Nigel Farage were to become prime minister, that they would use the Royal Navy to intercept small boats crossing the English Channel area. from France or indeed, I suppose, Belgium as well. Tell us a bit more. Tell newscasters who maybe didn't see that, maybe some newscasters did, but what did Nigel Farage and others have to say?
Well, I think it's important to just say that this is a hardening up
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–12:27
2
What is Reform UK's new plan to use the Royal Navy to stop small boats?
12:27–13:38
3
Why has Reform UK faced intense scrutiny over Nigel Farage's finances recently?
13:38–29:19
4
How does Operation Fortress change Reform's approach to channel crossings?
29:19–39:24