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WATCH: Richard Tice praises Christopher Harborne's £9million donation to Reform UK
Dec 4, 2025
Richard Tice has launched a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer as Labour looks set to postpone four mayoral elections, branding the move "laughable".Speaking to GB News, Reform UK's deputy leader accused the Prime Minister of turning "democracy into dictatorship" by denying 5.4 million voters the opportunity to go to the ballot box for another two years.FULL STORY HERE.
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Richard, good to see we've got a connection with you at last
0:03
We'll blame the technology for all of this. Good morning. What do you make of this
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Is there any legitimate reason why these elections should be postponed? Fear. That's the reason
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They're absolutely terrified of reform winning all of these four mayoral elections
0:22
as we won two mayoral elections this May. And I think this is, I'm afraid, just the beginning
0:28
because there are county council elections in these areas as well next May 26
0:35
And I think that it'll just be slipped out quietly, possibly in the coming months, that those are going to be cancelled as well
0:40
despite Angela Rayner having promised that they wouldn't. I mean, there's some 7.5 million people who are affected
0:47
And, I mean, generally it's dictators that cancel elections, not one of the finest democracies in the world
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i.e. the United Kingdom. And the idea that, oh, they need a bit more time to get organised
1:03
well, if the civil servants haven't got themselves organised, maybe they need to work a few longer hours in a day
1:10
maybe work a few weekends to get it sorted. That's what you do in the private sector
1:14
You've got a job to do, you've got a deadline, get it done. Yeah, but the thing is that we all know, don't we, Richard
1:19
that if this actually is the reason, and I know you suspect that it isn't
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but if this actually is the reason, and if it was chaos, in May with the mayoral elections
1:31
then everybody would be on the warpath again, saying that they couldn organise a drinking session in a brewery So you know if you look at it that side and so much of We know that a lot of politics is more sort of
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..is more a mess-up than a conspiracy. You know, that could be it
1:51
Well, if it's really that difficult to organise it for May 7th
1:55
OK, maybe we could negotiate a two- or four-week extension. Fine. But the idea that you need a two-year extension
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is clearly nothing to do with we're not quite ready, Gov. It's all to do with we're terrified of the progress of reform
2:10
They're winning by-elections week in, week out in Labour-Heartland areas like Sunderland, as we saw just last Thursday
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And they're actually conspiring with the Conservatives, where you've got council leaders from the Tory party
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who are writing to the government saying, please delay our own elections
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I mean, it's horrendous, but it's sort of laughable in a strange way as to just what's going on here
2:37
It's literally turning a democracy into a dictatorship. How important is it, though, that, I mean
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whatever local councillors are doing, on a national level, you've actually got the backing of..
2:49
Well, backing's probably the wrong word. But you've got the Lib Dems and the Tories
2:53
also saying this is a disgrace. So you're not standing out on your own
2:57
which is probably quite useful on this, isn't it? Yes, obviously, in that sense, they're attacking this
3:07
We're just... None of us are buying the excuse here. This is just a government that is doing really badly in the polls really badly week in week out in the by and it terrified of another massive car crash next May after the car crash of the budget last week
3:26
Can you tell us about this donation that we've talked about earlier on
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This is a £9 million donation from the aviation entrepreneur, Christopher Harbourn
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Literally, just coming on air, I've been in meetings all morning So that's sort of the... I was just hearing about it fresh
3:48
If that's true, then that's an extraordinary declaration of faith in Nigel's leadership, in reform, in our potential and our growth
3:59
It would be remarkable. I mean, it could turn things... I'm going to say turn things around
4:05
I mean, you're riding high in the polls, but it could make a significant difference, that sort of money, couldn't it
4:10
Of course, every political party is always out fundraising, and that could help us hugely over the coming years
4:19
and would be a fantastic base level of funding from which to continue to grow and succeed, absolutely
4:29
In terms of the party growing, what are we to think about what's going to happen
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with the Tories come the next election? There's this talk of a pact, even a non-official pact
4:41
There's talk of... Verging. Yeah, I mean, there's talk of Robert Jenrick being a prime target for you
4:47
Nigel's quoted in the papers as saying he wants to see a reverse takeover of the Tory party
4:54
Yeah basically they should do the right thing and recognise that after 200 years they had the chance and they blown it And I don think voters will forgive or forget the damage they done
5:05
And they should stand aside and let us take on the socialists and defeat them lock, stock and barrel so that we can rescue our country, save the economy and get the economy growing again
5:18
That's the only way that we can start making people feel more prosperous
5:22
Everybody's getting worse off. The budget figures last week show that real disposable household income will decline every single year over the next four or five years
5:33
So, yeah, we need we need change. And the Tories have had the chance. They've blown it
5:37
It's time to let reform take it on. And this donation will be a really a really key part of helping drive that growth
5:45
I just wanted to very briefly mention a piece in the Daily Telegraph today where, well, the headline is Farage denies inevitable pact with Tories, but it also says that recent polling has shown a slight downturn in reform's share of the vote
6:00
yes polls go up and down we've obviously i think we're now been ahead in the last 170 plus
6:08
national polls they'll bounce around a bit the gap is is always fairly consistent at sort of
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eight to ten points um but look uh we mustn't be complacent we keep pushing forwards we'll get
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lots right inevitably we'll make some mistakes that's the nature of things uh but we've got to
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just keep delivering and if we don't deliver then voters will say um thanks i might want to look
6:30
elsewhere but week in week out of the moment in the polls that really matter at the ballot box
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we're doing remarkably well
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