Nigel Faraj claims to transform British policy as the reform achieves great gains

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Speaking to the victories of the local elections, it flowed from all over England to reform the United Kingdom on Friday, Nigel Varage insisted that this was just the beginning of his journey to become the next Prime Minister in Britain.

“I will transform the scene of the British policy, just as I was in the past,” he told the Financial Times. “The Conservative Party has ended, its 195 -year -old, approaching its end.”

On Friday, the reform won its fifth parliamentary seat, taking the safe work circle in Ronkorn and Hildby with only six votes, in addition to two mayors. It’s now Control seven councilsAll of them won the conservatives, carrying more than 400 seats for the council.

Referring to the victories of the large local elections by the other major competitor in British policy, liberal democrats, Farraj said that “the Conservative Party’s power has always been in Shaer England. By the end of the day that did not exist,” Farraj said.

The test of Faraj’s confidence will come over the next few years, and all the five parties expect in the growing British political scene to break their campaigns before the next general elections, in 2029.

There are still great obstacles on Farraj road to power. This includes the need to secure more money to compete with the two main parties in British politics, and the risks led by the councils led by non -experienced reformist politicians will descend to internal fighting, which leads to the party’s popularity at the country level.

Ben Angel, a professor of politics at the University of Oxford, said he believed that there is only a chance of 10 to 20 percent to take power in the upcoming elections. He said: “This depends on the conservatives – the most successful party in British political history – is no longer among the dead.”

The widespread victories indicate that the party not only captured the disturbing conservative voters, but also a large part of the people who voted to work in the general elections last year.

Steve Akherst, a polling analyst in the UK region, said detailed opinion polls on the intention of voting for the municipal elections clearly showed that the reform was crossing the people who had not voted before.

Referring to more than one race, many work activists in northern England said that they believe that people who do not usually vote went out to give the Labor Party and conservatives a kick, because Farraj gave them a way to do this. This style was especially clear in the 2016 European Union referendum, as it contributed to voting in favor of Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Farage is now planning to double the Lib Dem model by targeting the areas that greatly showed special support for reform, and the construction of a loyal cotry for party members and activists before the upcoming general elections.

Chris Hopkins, director of political research in opinion polls, said that he was skeptical of the rise of reform until recently, but now he is convinced that Farraj has a reasonable path to power. “It seems that the sky is the maximum reform at the present time,” he said.

For decades, it was widely believed that the first electoral system in Britain was an obstacle to the rise of the smaller parties, while maintaining the hegemony of the Labor Party and conservatives.

Peter Keelner, former Youngov -President’s former president, said that the parties could have needed to secure at least 30 percent of the votes to reach the turning point they could win in the elections. But now, he argued, due to the seizure of voters and the rise of the smaller parties, this number is about 25 percent. The reform won about 30 percent of the expected national voting share on Thursday, compared to employment by 20 percent.

“The reform is no longer suffering from a penalty (first) penalty,” Kilnar said, adding that this should “frighten the Labor and Conservative Party.”

Reform hopes to take advantage of his victories this week to attract more donations to the party – Farage said he hoped to secure more than 40 million pounds before the upcoming elections. “there New donors Farraj told FT:

The reform collected 280,000 pounds in the last quarter of 2024, which is the last period in which the numbers are available, compared to the Conservative Party, who collected two million pounds, and the Labor Party, which received a million pounds. It is understood that the party has collected several million in the first quarter of this year, but it still has a way to go to match approximately 5 milliliters of £ to 10 milliliters £ 10, receiving other major parties outside the election years.

There will now be a wide range of scale on how to use the repair of the executive force that is now kept to operate local governments and the town throughout England.

In Durham County, where the reform became the largest group in the council, it was not clear how the party could manage an organization under severe financial pressure. The party’s literature focused on national issues and only gave a few of the party’s plans to the local government.

Also, whoever is unprecedented, how new reform advisers-many of whom won their seats on charges of implementing a copy of the Ellen Musk circle of the so-called government’s efficiency in areas such as Lincolnchyire-que–will be able to determine sufficient savings to maintain a decrease in the council tax in the local authorities that have suffered from huge financial discounts in recent years and struggle.

One of the Conservative Party said: “Candidate scandalsThe wrong media can stem and internal competitions destabilize the party as it rises. “