Nigel Farage says he’s ready to lead a new Tory-Reform party if there’s a wipeout & says he’ll ‘never surrender’

NIGEL Farage has revealed he is open to leading a merged Conservative and Reform party if the Tories are crushed at the General Election.

The Reform chief and Brexit mischief maker said he WOULD take command of a right-wing “national opposition” to Labour if Sir Keir Starmer is elected in three weeks.

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He told LBC: “I think something new is going to emerge on the centre-right, I don’t know what it is called.

“Do I think I’m capable of leading a national opposition to a Labour Party with a big majority, where I can stand up and hold them to account on issues? Yes.

“I would be prepared to lead the centre-right in this country.

“A centre-right that stands up for business, that believes in borders and that isn’t scared of standing up for the British people.”

Farage said he would not be prepared to lead the Tory Party “as it currently is” but probed on whether he would lead a group merged with the Reform UK outfit he replied: “Yes”.

But he warned the Conservative Party “may well be dead” if Keir Starmer is handed a super-majority by voters.

He added: “This may well be the end of their journey. I would be prepared to lead the centre-right in this country.”

The new pivot comes despite Farage previously insisting comments on our Never Mind The Ballots show – where he asked PM Rishi Sunak to make him an offer – were not serious.

He told our Political Editor Harry Cole that the Tories deserved to be wiped out for “betraying” voters on immigration and Brexit.

Yet he also appeared to suggest there was room for a deal, telling Rishi: “Give me something back… We might have a conversation.”

This morning he accused the Tories of lying to voters and claimed Reform would pass the Conservatives in the polls within days.

Some polls have already shown Reform within a single point of their right-wing rivals after Farage’s return gave the upstart group a four-point boost.

He said of the polls: “I think we are very close to a tipping point.

“The election is over, Labour have won. 

“It’s a question of who you want in opposition.

“The Conservatives are incapable of opposition because they hate each other.”

And asked if he believed the Tories had misled the electorate on previous pledges to bring down net migration, he blasted: “If you lie to people again and again you might just get away with it a few times… 2.5 million people have settled here over the past two years.”

Farage, 60, also fumed at other mainstream politicians for not meeting people during campaign stops.

The party chief added meeting ordinary people was the reason he had been sprayed with a milkshake in Clacton, Essex, where he is standing as an MP for an eighth time,

And on Tuesday he had objects thrown at his Reform UK bus while campaigning in Barnsley.

The repeated attacks have even seen Farage offered extra security from the Home Office during canvassing events.

He went on: “I dare to break the consensus, I dare to talk about things people won’t touch.

“I actually do campaign visits.

“The Conservatives are scared of the mob, I will never surrender to the mob ever.”