well, it has, because reform first of all, in its ukip form, with farage once again at the helm, managedctate brexit for us insofar as that referendum would have never happened had it not been for the power of farage outside the parliamentary system. and now take two, this time against the migrant and i for one, there are huge numbers of things we could do. >> legal workers aren't migrants. >> there's a huge. >> there's a huge. >> number of clampdown on illegal workers. don't confuse that with asylum seekers, those who come here legally and peacefully. but these are illegal. they've got no right to be here. >> but there's a huge narrative, isn't there, around migration being out of control and actually where it impacts on the population, i.e. 650 net migrants coming into the country. you can restructure the economy. you can make your university system less dependent on foreign money, all sorts of deeply unsexy things that don't catch the headlines. so instead they are chasing the voters know, chasing criminal chasing voters who are probably watching right now, who tend towards reform. th

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 economi

, it�*s the it's the ukip and yeah, it�*s the it�*s the left. a little bit. but you know, these people are fundamentally anti—democratic. as susie says, these people are trying to shut down free speech. if you don't have freedom of expression of your opinions, you cannot have democracy. it�*s fundamentally anti—democratic. and i�*m going to be even more and i'm going to be even more sort of firm on this and say, you know, back back in the day before tony blair messed around with it, the definition of terrorism was trying to bring about political change through the threat or use of violence. now, this is the threat and to an extent, the use of violence for a political purpose. and i�*m not going to call it terrorism, but it is verging on that. and for the police not to take action. and, you know, i�*m a former police officer as well, and there are occasions when it is very difficult to make arrests. i wasn't there, but arrests. i wasn�*t there, but we've got to, as a nation, confront this violence in politics and this intimidation, because otherw

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

reform in its previous guise, as ukip actually fought off the bnp and it holds democracy in contempt. desperate reforms. views are mainstream, opposing the ridiculous employment rights proposals of the hard left government that we've got. calling them rude names makes a keir starmer look weak. earlier this evening i spoke to a former chairman. the very, very dangerous. watch for yourselves. zia yusuf. i'm delighted to be joined by yusuf this evening. zia, are you a dangerous right wing political figure? >> look, keir starmers speech yesterday was confirmation that reform is officially now the effectively the actual opposition in this country. he's terrified. you can see it in his eyes. and the reason he's terrified is because reform is shining a bright, disinfecting light on his wretched government, and we have no intention of stopping jacob. >> fryston term of abuse, isn't it? what is it that you think he thinks is dangerous about you? is it dangerous that you're in favour of freedom of speech? is it dangerous that you think the uk should govern herself? is it dangerous that you thin

paul nuttall was driven out of ukip for accusations he didn't have his his cv. correct.the same sort of argument. what you want to do if you want to justify being honest and decent in politics is say, if it's good for the goose, it's good for the ganden for the goose, it's good for the gander. and that's the main point. >> well, well, well, stella, let's just build on that for a second, because let's assume these allegations are true. and let's say it's someone different. it's not rachel reeves just say it's someone else, right? would you expect that person to be fired from their job? that person to be fired from theirjob? if that person to be fired from their job? if they're theirjob? if they're a politician who's in charge of a high office in the country, would you agree with that, that they, you know, if there's an allegation of scandal in expenses, there's an allegation of inflated cv, would you agree that person should step down? >> so, alex, 16 years from now, you run and you become. >> political scenario. >> political scenario. >> no, no, because the situation is

ukip leader nigel farage has been addressing his party members in essex tonight on the fifth anniversaryf 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. he's being mobbed, but he knows he's going to talk to us. i'm just going to talk to us. i'm just goin

people who have been moving from the labour party over the last decade or so, over to nigel farage to ukipit party and now reform. let me just 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, includi

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

we have former ukip leader henry bolton and journalist jj anna sewell obe looking very dapper, both of you. we're actually in tonal colours today. i think michael portillo's just told me off for wearing grey basically. god. >> you're wearing. >> you're wearing. >> red or purplish. i bet. >> red or purplish. i bet. >> it's the. opposite extreme. >> it's the. opposite extreme. >> it's the. opposite extreme. >> i think we look smart between us anyway. but before we get stuck into today's stories, here's the news headlines with aaron armstrong. >> very good afternoon to you. let's get you up to date with the headlines. four new laws have been introduced to tackle a threat of child sexual abuse. images generated by artificial intelligence. home secretary yvette cooper says ai has put child sexual abuse on steroids, and claims the uk will be the first country to make it illegal to possess, create or distribute tools that create abusive images. owning software which can generate these pictures could result in a five year prison sentence. users found to own ai made so—called paedophile manuals