Nigel Farage ‘confident’ Reform UK will be second in the polls by next week
The Reform UK leader received a standing ovation from hundreds of voters at a campaign event in Clacton on Tuesday evening.
Nigel Farage has said he is “confident” Reform UK will be second in the opinion polls by next week at a General Election campaign event in Clacton.
It came a day after the party leader said he wanted Reform to establish a “bridgehead” in Parliament with a view to a full assault at a 2029 general election and himself in No 10.
Mr Farage received a standing ovation from hundreds of voters at a campaign event at the Princes Theatre on Tuesday evening as he entered the auditorium to Eminem’s hit Without Me.
Dozens of attendees queued outside the theatre before the doors opened and the 826-seat venue was almost full by the time Mr Farage took to the stage.
Speaking on stage between two Union flags, the Reform UK leader said: “Something very exciting is going on.
“We are even or just ahead of the Conservative Party in the opinion polls.”
He added: “We will, I’m quite confident, by early next week clearly be in second place in the opinion polls.
