a tireless campaigner for brexit was reform ukip leader nigel farage. here he is celebrating five years ago today. mr farage is holding a reform party conference in kemi badenoch constituency. he told martin daubney although it was the right thing to do, we haven't grasped the opportunities that could have come with it. >> there are so many things that we stayed aligned to, including most of their rule book. now, clearly what keir starmer wants to do is in terms of, of defence and perhaps even foreign policy, tie us closer to the european union. from the sounds of it, he wants us to start mirroring the single market rulebook. i mean, none of that is good. but is keir starmer going to take us back into the european union? no, he is not. so i just see this now as being unfinished business. you're quite right. starmer was an uber remainer, a rejoiner wanted to have a second referendum. the tories, from what i can see now, never really believed in it. so reform are the only people who can finish the only people who can finish the job. >> despite the economic

deputy prime minister angela rayner has cancelled local elections for 5.5 million people, outraging reform ukip leader nigel farage. >> there is no justification for cancelling these elections whatsoever other than sheer cowardice of what reform might do to them in those campaigns. to get. >> earning or get out. that's the message from the conservative leader. kemi badenoch to migrants who haven't got a job. >> yes, it's been a long wait, hasn't it.7 but finally, a policy from kemi badenoch. can they get a hearing from the british public, who at the moment increasingly look like they're turning to reform? >> incoming british. >> incoming british. >> president, who is little short of a white nationalist and racist? >> so that's the incoming british ambassador to america, lord mandelson, being less than complimentary about donald trump in 2019. he's now calling those comments childish. but there's somebody waiting in the wings for his job. >> nuclear nation planning rules are to be ripped up, making it easier to build small nuclear reactors to power millions of homes. >> and should we ban childre

. >> welcome back to patrick christys tonight with me, alex armstrong reform. ukipeader nigel farage has been addressing his party members in essex tonight on the fifth anniversary of brexit. there for us, of course, is our political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, what have you got with us? >> yes. good evening. from near saffron walden, nigel farage having a huge amount of fun here. it's kemi badenoch constituency. but they got into a row, didn't they, at christmas over the party membership numbers for reform, which she said were fake. not only were they not fake, reform have now got 190,000 members as against the conservatives, about 130,000. so nigel farage here, hundreds of reform members and they are on a roll. he's saying everybody laughed about me saying that brexit couldn't be done. they're not laughing now. also saying that the same appues also saying that the same applies about reform. sure, they've only got five mps at the moment, but it sounds if you believe what they say, like the sky is the limit. now i'm just going to grab one of them. h

been moving from the labour party over the last decade or so, over to nigel farage to ukip, the brexit party and now reformust ask you a very simple question. do you think after all that time, after the last 15 years or so, do you think the labour party really gets the scale of the threat that's about to come to the labour party at the next general election, from nigel farage and reform? reform ? >> reform? >> well, good evening matt. i think some of them do. we've seen this red wall caucus of mps who i think have correctly identified the threat from reform in their constituencies. they know it's important to get immigration numbers down. they know it's important to get economic growth. they understand the importance of reducing nhs waiting lists, tackling the housing crisis and so on, making sure there's a fair transition on net zero. so i think it's heartening for somebody on the left like me to know that there are people within the labour party who get that. but look, let's not make any mistake. there are lots of people in the party and the wider labour movement, including the trade unions, who are very

former ukip leader henry bolton, former conservative mp tobias ellwood and the writer and broadcaster nina myskow. this is brexit day five with me tom harwood. let's get going. now. the reform uk leader nigel farage will be taking to the stage any moment now. but first we're going to catch up on the news headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> tom, thank you very much. while the uk is marking five years since it left the european union, and former prime minister bofis union, and former prime minister boris johnson has exclusively told gb news now is the time to double down on brexit. he also said we need a government that really believes in brexit and we need the british ruling class finally to match the bravery and imagination of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave. for supporters, the uk became a sovereign nation in charge of its own destiny. opponents believe it's isolated the country and damaged the economy. a tireless campaigner for brexit was reform uk leader nigel farage. here he is celebrating five years ago. well, today mr farage is holding a reform party conference in kemi badenoch constituency. he's due to take to the stage any moment now. earlier he told martin