Today I asked the Health Minister to back a desperately needed new hospital for Halton and Warrington.
Our existing hospital estate has not been substantially upgraded since the 1960s and can no longer keep pace with the needs of our growing population.
Residents across Runcorn and Helsby deserve modern healthcare facilities that are fit for the next generation.
I was sorry to miss the House of Commons paying tribute to my friend and colleague Ann Widdecombe. Unfortunately, at the same time, I was speaking in Westminster Hall in a debate on illegal migration and offshore deportation centres.
It would be easy to stay quiet right now. Recent events have had a profound effect on us all. But that is not what Reform is about, and Ann would have been the first to say so.
She never stayed silent in the face of threats. She spoke up and raised the subjects others were too frightened to confront.
So that is what I did today.
A man gets into a car with a stick, drives hundreds of miles to brutally murder the beloved elderly matriarch of Reform UK.
The authorities offer no information, but if you ask questions they admonish you for “speculating”.
Reform MPs demanding security from the state are told to shut up and be grateful that “the police know where their house is” and the “direct telephone number to the police” to call if someone tries to murder them.
Reveal that the Speaker of the House has totally ignored letters from Reform MPs about their safety and he briefs the press that he’s “furious”, while failing to deny this.
If you go to lay flowers in memory of your friend you are “politicising” her murder.
If you push back against any of this, you are hounded to the ends of the earth by the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Mirror, and hundreds of crazed leftists online.
These, apparently, are the new rules for Nigel, for Reform MPs and all those in our movement.
None of it will deter us.
We will fight on.
For Ann.
For our country. 🇬🇧
Reform has pledged to launch an investigation into nearly £1bn of skyscraper loans awarded by Andy Burnham in the party’s manifesto for the Manchester mayoral election.
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I am so sorry to hear of the passing of Ann Widdecombe. She was a remarkable woman and a truly lovely lady.
I greatly admired the speeches she made as Prisons Minister. More recently, she stayed with me and was wonderful company over dinner, full of wit, warmth and extraordinary stories.
She was still campaigning hard only weeks ago, with all the determination and spirit for which she was so well known. And woe betide anyone who tried to stand in her way.
She will be greatly missed.
Establishment party leaders have been slating Nigel every day for years now.
Presented with an opportunity to make a case to voters and beat him at the ballot box?
They run for the hills.
Cowardly and transparent.
The establishment is on the ropes.
The establishment have attacked, briefed and smeared in a relentless attempt to bring down Nigel Farage.
But Nigel’s answer is simple: let the people of Clacton decide.
🚨Great to be here in Clacton to support Nigel Farage!
He has spent 30 years fighting for a better Britain and transforming this country.
Let’s get behind him and deliver a seismic result! 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Two years ago, Clacton was represented by a Conservative MP.
Today, the Tories are so frightened of losing their deposit (for the third by-election in a row) that they will not even stand against Nigel Farage.
How far they have fallen.
This is the people versus the establishment.
The people of Clacton are sovereign. Nigel Farage’s decision to put himself before them and seek their judgement is real bravery and real leadership.
If other parties choose not to contest this by-election, it will mean one thing and one thing only:
They are scared.
I am going to do the morning ‘’media round’ tomorrow.
Reform has been inundated with bids.
Except there’s ONE outlet that has REFUSED to bring on a Reform representative.
The outlet: Sky News.
We are witnessing the real-time destruction of a news channel.
Sky News have been exposed for lying after @Nigel_Farage published the footage.
There is never an excuse for targeting the children of politicians.
Their pathetic defence was that Nigel wasn’t answering questions… when they knew he was out of the country meeting the Vice President of America.
They then hosted Adam Boulton to defend Sky’s behaviour on air.
Who is he? A close friend of Peter Mandelson whose wife was a senior advisor to Tony Blair and who has just been made a peer by Keir Starmer.
This is the type of media organisation that Lisa Nandy wants to give privileged status to.
It’s all a cosy club.
But it won’t wash anymore.
Nigel Farage and Reform UK are here to shake things up.
Bring it on.
The establishment will do almost anything to stop Reform UK, including, it seems, using instruments of the state.
They are terrified of the British people having their say.
Reform accuses National Crime Agency of leaking bank statements
I believe someone at NCA leaked company statements, bank transfer information & private conversations with my bank managers to Guardian
Am seeking inquiry & police must investigate NCA https://t.co/yxlR5vYA1G
Several media organisations have been hounding my daughter.
When I approached the boss of Sky News and complained, they denied any contact — and so did their news report.
Sky News are liars. I demand an apology from them and a promise not to repeat it.
This by-election will be the people versus the establishment.
If the other parties refuse to stand in Clacton, it will show one thing and one thing alone: they are scared of @Nigel_Farage, scared of @reformparty_uk, and scared of being held to account by the British people.
The establishment is terrified of Nigel Farage. They will do almost anything to stop @reformparty_uk, including changing the law, cancelling elections and targeting Nigel’s family.
There is a line you simply do not cross.
In the House of Commons this afternoon, I challenged the Government on why British elections are not reserved for British citizens, called for a review of cases where foreign nationals convicted of child sex offences should be deported, and asked why there is still a defence funding shortfall amid rising welfare costs, foreign aid spending and Net Zero schemes.
Britain’s priorities need to change.
Following the early release of child rapist and grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed, I asked the Government whether anyone else in similar circumstances remains in Britain because their deportation has failed.
The Minister says not. Let us hope he is right.