Nigel Farage unleashes tirade at Tories, calls for reindustrialisation of Britain

Some say he is Britain’s Donald Trump, but Reform UK leader Nigel Farage - who was the great disruptor long before the American President - has lashed UK’s Conservative Party.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has lashed the Conservative Party and said it is “not on the right” while also criticising net-zero policy, labelling it a “complete and utter disgrace”.

Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London with Canadian psychologist and commentator Jordan Peterson, Mr Farage told the audience that the Tories had failed the British public after 14 years in government until their landslide election loss in 2024.

“First things first, the right is not right in this country,” Mr Farage said.

“The Conservative Party is not on the right.

“Fourteen years of the highest tax burden since 1947, 14 years that saw mass immigration, legal mass immigration on a scale hitherto never even dreamt of.

Nigel Farage attends the Alliance For Responsible Citizenship Conference in London. Picture: Andrew Parsons / Parsons Media

“And 14 years that saw net zero enshrined into law by a Conservative government, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, as evangelical about net zero as the current Ed Miliband (UK’s secretary of state for energy and climate change).”

Reform UK, a right-leaning political party, has surged in popularity in recent months and a recent poll found it more trusted by voters than the Tories.

The poll showed 19 per cent of voters believed Mr Farage’s party is trustworthy compared to 11 per cent for the Conservative Party.

During Tuesday’s address Mr Farage also urged Britain to return to producing its own energy supplies instead of relying on imports.

“We take the view that if we’re going to be using gas, if we’re going to be using oil in this country until 2050 … we may as well produce them ourselves,” he said.

“Our platform is to reindustrialise growth”.

Nigel Farage thinks the Tories have lost their way. Picture: Andrew Parsons / Parsons Media

Mr Farage said closing down power stations only for them to then be opened up in India is counter-productive and that every day Britain imports 10 to 15 per cent of electricity and the UK’s industrial energy prices are between four and six times higher as a result.

Mr Farage, who re-entered parliament at Britain’s last election, said he made the decision to do so for three reasons, “family, community and country”.

He campaigned for Brexit after founding the Brexit party in 2019 which became Reform UK in 2021.