Nigel Farage will be at the Reform UK North West conference tonight (Image: PA )
Nigel Farage has piled on the pressure on Sir Keir Starmer over the grooming gangs scandal by welcoming a Labour mayor 'breaking ranks' to support the demand.
The Reform UK leader said he welcomed Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's decision, saying: "I think the pressure on the Prime Minister is becoming immense."
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The Reform UK's meteoric rise in popularity has continued as he also received backing from a surprising former political foe who said he could become the next Prime Minister.
Ex-SNP head Nicola Sturgeon told the Financial Times she believed it was no longer "impossible" that Mr Farage could get keys to Number 10.
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Reform UK have enjoyed surging popularity in the polls since returning an astonishing six MPs to Parliament in July in the first General Election the party has stood for.
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Reform actually won a massive 14.3% of the national vote share, putting them third behind Labour and the Conservatives. The party also came second in a staggering 98 of seats they contested.
Speaking to the Financial Times ahead of tonight's North West Conference, Ms Sturgeon said Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government were making "unbelievably terrible" decisions" and that she believed Mr Farage and Reform now stood a chance of taking over. She said: “Five years ago, I would have said it’s impossible. I don’t think that any more.”
Reform UK are holding a "sold out" rally at the Crowne Plaza in Chester today.
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8 hours ago17:14 Richard Ashmore
Reform claim to have 180,000 members
Posting on their X account the Reform Party said it had reached over 180,000 members in a historic milestone as a political organisation.
\ud83d\udea8 We now have over 180,000 members!
Join the fastest growing movement in British politics \u27a1\ufe0f https://t.co/PXAEd8j45A pic.twitter.com/qZa1jh3vJv
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8 hours ago17:10 Richard Ashmore
New poll results show people don't think Labour doing enough on grooming gangs
Polling by More in Common suggested most people thought the Government had not done enough to tackle grooming gangs.
Some 60% of people told the pollster that the current Labour Government had not done enough, while 69% said the same about the previous Conservative administration.
More than half of the 2,011 people surveyed said they had no or not much confidence that the justice system took allegations of child sexual exploitation seriously, while 41% thought the activities of grooming gangs had been deliberately covered up.
8 hours ago17:07 Richard Ashmore
Farage welcomes Labour Mayor's support for national grooming inquiry
Mr Burnham told BBC Radio Manchester he thought there was a case for a "limited national inquiry that draws on reviews like the one that I commissioned, and the one we have seen in Rotherham, the one we have seen in Telford, to draw out some of these national issues and compel people to give evidence, who then may have charges to answer and be held to account".
However the Labour government have so far rejected his plea.
Labour Mayor Andy Burnham (Image: PA )
9 hours ago16:21 Richard Ashmore
Farage calls for national inquiry into grooming gangs
Nigel Farage reiterated his call for a national inquiry into grooming gangs as he addressed Reform UK's North West conference.
The Reform UK leader had been introduced by Elizabeth Harper, a survivor of child sexual abuse in Rotherham, who also called for a national inquiry.
Mr Farage said: "Unless we get to the bottom of what has happened here, to understand the full extent and scale of what has happened here, to understand the motives of those who perpetrated these crimes - which frankly I believe are more than likely to be deeply racist in nature - unless we confront this head on, we are never going to have a path to stopping it."
Describing the Jay review as a "shotgun approach", he said: "This needs to be a rifle shot that deals with grooming gangs, predominantly of Pakistani origin" abusing mainly white working-class girls.
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9 hours ago16:13 Richard Ashmore
Nigel Farage is speaking now at the rally in Chester
The Reform UK leader is speaking now at the rally in Chester.
9 hours ago16:10 Richard Ashmore
Nigel Farage due on stage soon at the rally
Reform UK's X account said the leader was due on stage soon to speak to supporters.
Next on stage at Reform's North West Conference @Nigel_Farage! pic.twitter.com/Q2GVgym62W
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