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Ann Widdecombe claims Reform UK stands for 'two words' as she blasts Tories' Rwanda plan

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Ann Widdecombe says Reform UK stands for 'common sense' (Image: Getty)

Ann Widdecombe has said Reform UK stands for "common sense" above all at a party rally in Birmingham. The former Brexit Party MEP told supporters at the National Exhibition Centre on Sunday (June 30) that Nigel Farage's party would "bring common sense back to Britain" and rid the country of "woke".

She told thousands of Reform UK supporters: "We stand for two words above all - common sense."

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Nigel Farage attacked the BBC, Channel 4, Tories and Labour during his speech at Reform UK's rally (Image: Getty)

Elsewhere in the rally, Reform UK donor Zia Yusuf told the Rally for Reform problems with the NHS were "unbecoming of Great Britain" and praised frontline staff who he said work hard despite "awful conditions".

Claiming political "elites" had "catastrophically failed" the country, Mr Yusuf said: "To our young people, I say you are being betrayed. You are being robbed of a fair opportunity.

"We have been failed by our incompetent political leaders. It does not have to be this way."

Pledging "change is coming", Mr Yusuf added Reform UK's movement was built on courage and "powered by love". To loud applause, the businessman added: "Thankfully, we have an ace up our sleeve - in Nigel Farage we have a real leader."

Arriving on stage, Mr Farage told attendees life had been "pretty good" for the last four years after Brexit, pointing to his role in getting GB News off the ground and speaking tours in the US.

He also revealed his first grandson was born in recent weeks as he strove to suggest he didn't have to make his political comeback, adding: "Life has been content... I've not been subject to endless media attacks."

Mr Farage had ruled out standing in the General Election when the poll date was announced in May, but he performed a U-turn within days and is now standing as Reform's candidate in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

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Nigel Farage was applauded when he said Reform would campaign to scrap the licence fee (Image: Getty)

Reform's leader said after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the snap election for July 4 he couldn't stand aside when the choice was between "slippery Sunak" and Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, who he accused of having no leadership qualities or charisma.

Mr Farage said of his return to frontline politics that he couldn't stand aside when the country is in "genuine societal decline". He accused the Conservatives of standing for nothing, saying the party that describes itself as a "broad church" doesn't have a religion and "simply doesn't work".

He said people felt scared to go out at night and knives were being carried "wholesale" by young people, adding the UK country has forgotten what it is.

The leader of Reform added that "something remarkable" is happening across all ages and classes, with his party ahead of the Tories in a number of polls. But he suggested there is a conspiracy aimed at stopping Reform UK from succeeding.

Mr Farage went on to say: "I know we're doing very well because when you threaten the Establishment they don't exactly come out with a tray of gin and tonics, do they?"

The Reform leader attacked the BBC, Channel 4, the Tories and Labour in his speech. On Sir Keir Starmer's party, he said the idea it represents change was "for the birds".

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Reform's leader took aim at the BBC for a presenter describing his language as "inflammatory" when cutting away from coverage of Mr Farage during an appearance in Dover and repeated his claim the broadcaster had rigged a Question Time audience which took him to task in an election debate.

The BBC has insisted the Question Time audience was made up of broadly similar levels of representation from Reform UK and the Green Party, with other parties represented too.

He accused the BBC of abusing its "position of power". To cheers from the audience, Mr Farage said: "We will campaign for the abolition of the BBC licence fee."

On an undercover report broadcast by Channel 4 during which Reform campaigners made a series of racist and bigoted slurs, he said the "so-called public service broadcaster" had carried out the "biggest put up job and smear campaign" he had ever seen.

Channel 4 News has said it did not pay Reform campaigner Andrew Parker who was "not known" to the broadcaster and was "filmed covertly via the undercover operation".

Mr Farage admitted Reform has seen "a few bad apples" make it onto its list of candidates, but said they had been dismissed by the party. Reform is no longer supporting Edward Oakenfull, standing in Derbyshire Dales, Robert Lomas, a candidate in Barnsley North, and Leslie Lilley, who is seeking votes in Southend East and Rochford, after alleged comments made by the three emerged in the media.

On criticism of previous remarks he made about the Ukraine war and Vladimir Putin, Mr Farage said what the Russian president had done through Russia's invasion was "morally reprehensible".

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