{"id":215631,"date":"2023-10-22T02:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T02:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=215631"},"modified":"2023-10-22T02:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T02:24:05","slug":"reform-uk-party-leader-rules-out-coalition-lifeline-for-rishi-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/reform-uk-party-leader-rules-out-coalition-lifeline-for-rishi-sunak\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK party leader rules out coalition lifeline for Rishi Sunak"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reform UK party leader Richard Tice has slammed the door shut on any pact to save the Tories at the next general election.<\/p>\n
Mr Tice told The Mail on Sunday: ‘They can offer me five million quid and a peerage, and the answer is still “No!” The Tories broke their contract with the British people and they have to be kicked out.’<\/p>\n
The unequivocal declaration came amid evidence that the Conservatives could have avoided last week’s by-election defeats if Right-wing rival Reform had not fielded candidates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reform’s vote in both Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth was bigger than Labour’s majority in both constituencies.<\/p>\n
Formerly led by Nigel Farage, Reform has already vowed to field candidates in 630 seats at next year’s general election \u2013 potentially posing a dire threat to the Tories.<\/p>\n
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Having already vowed to field candidates in 630 constituencies at the next election, Reform UK leader Richard Tice dismissed the possibility of forming a pact with the Conservatives<\/p>\n
But Mr Tice last night dismissed any suggestion that his party would simply pave the way to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour becoming the next government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said: ‘To anyone who says that Reform will just be letting in Labour, I say there’s no difference between the two of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘The Tories and Labour are two forms of socialism: high tax, high regulation, low growth and pro net zero. It’s all a catastrophe for the country.’<\/p>\n
After the by-election results on Friday, Mr Tice taunted the Tories about how his party had cost them their victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Despite taunting that his party had cost the Tories by-election results in Tamworth (pictured) and Mid-Bedfordshire, Mr Tice insisted his party would not just let Labour into power<\/p>\n
Writing on X, he said this was ‘despite huge squeeze\/pressure from Tories to voters, saying do not vote Reform’.<\/p>\n
But Alexander Stafford, Tory MP for Rother Valley, said: ‘It is nonsense to suggest that Tories and Labour are the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘A re-elected Tory government will complete Brexit after the general election. Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour would wreck it.’<\/p>\n