The father of Brexit would merge the current governing Conservative Party into his own party.

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, whose party looks set to overtake the ruling Conservative Party as the largest party on the British Right, said he would even consider taking over the Conservative leadership and merging them into his party. Farage was speaking on Thursday morning as part of a continuing media blitz by his former employer, broadcaster LBC, to promote his bid to enter the British parliament and also looked ahead to the likely consequences of the July general election. Current opinion polls suggest that the opposition left-wing Labour Party is likely to win a landslide victory and take control of the government.

„We need a coherent voice of opposition.”

Nigel Farage tells @NickFerrariLBC he’d be happy to lead a ‘merged’ Conservative and Reform UK party. pic.twitter.com/lcwzQNOnhJ

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The question now is not who will form the next British government, as Mr Farage has said repeatedly over the past week, but who will have the important task of coming out in opposition and challenging Labour at the next election, in 2029 or before. In the normal times of Britain’s inherited two-party system, that would be the Conservatives currently in power, but they have so outraged their own voters that there is a growing sense that the party deserves to win zero seats and disappear for good.

Farage insists that he could lead the centre-right in this UK, a centre-right that stands up for small business, that believes in the border, a centre-right that is not afraid to stand up for the British people.