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Chris Hope, GB News. Nigel Farage, we were last here in this room with you ten days ago
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You said then, get ready for a Labour defector. That was last Tuesday. That never happened
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Are these Labour defectors scared off by you hiring right-wing politicians like Suella Braverman
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And to Suella Braverman, did you jump before you were pushed? Is that what drove you to make this choice today
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And how can Nigel Farage succeed where all the other top politicians have failed what you want
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Well, Suella wasn't going to be pushed. I mean, the reason she joined and the reason you didn't know about it is because basically there were only two people that understood
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Actually, I think your husband was involved, too. But we didn't tell anybody. You know what it's like in politics? You tell someone something in confidence, they will always share it with at least one other person
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And that person thinks, well, now I've been told, perhaps I'll tell somebody else
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And that's why so few things in politics ever stay secret. It's why cabinets leak like civs
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All meetings leak. And generally, generally, over the years, when I've done manoeuvres like this
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we've managed to keep them under the radar. There are one or two in the party who criticise me
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by saying, why didn't you tell me first? Well, because I like surprises. I like to produce jack-in-the-boxes
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and I think today was one of them. I mean, did you expect this defection? Yes
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Did you? Oh, really? Well, I tell you what, when the next one comes on this or any other event, let me know, because I'll get down Ladbrokes with you, and we'll all make a very great deal of money
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Didn't happen yet. Didn't happen yet. It will. We are talking to a number of people who held senior positions in the Labour Party and yes they will come but as I said with the Robert Jenrick move you know I was 65 35 confident he come in a few weeks time But you never quite know until it done But Kim he did us a big favor on that one
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OK, let's go to Amanda from Sky News. OK, yeah. Listen, you asked about when. I've never been divorced, but I have observed a lot of divorces and it feels a bit like a divorce
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I've been in a relationship. There's been a lot of infrequent betrayal on the part of
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one party and yet I've stayed loyal. I've tried to make it work. We didn't go for counselling
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but I've tried to give it a good go. Sometimes there have been some good weekends and some
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good times and then sometimes it's all fallen back. And gradually there's an erosion of
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trust and a breakdown of affiliation, love even if you call it that. And eventually there's
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a final straw, there's a moment when you think, right, this is it. And I think for me that
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final straw has actually come in the last few days because the Tory party has exposed
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itself to be incredibly toxic and a circus and a very unhealthy place. The text messages
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were released by the, I think Robert Jenrick released them, but they were text messages
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by the chief whip. So I saw what she really thought about me, which is she wanted me out
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There now seems to be a concerted effort. You could call it a witch hunt within the conservative
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party to hound out right wingers. And, you know, there's been some unprovoked, unjustified
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hostile briefing directed towards me from the leader's office. There comes a point when
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you say, this is not the partnership for me, and I deserve better
